Windows 2003 Server GPO config help

[Rippie_DK]

Hi everyone,

I need some help in order to get a GPO setting to work. The settings i cant get to work is "Computer Configuration>Policies>Windows Settings>Event Log"

We have currently this set to:

Retention method for application log

Retention method for security log

Retention method for system log and they are all set to "OVERRIDE AS NEEDED"

The GPO is linked to our domain and has a security filter on a security group which has members in it, not computers.

But it does not seem to work, when we look in our event viewer and we look at the properties for system log, it is not set to override when needed. Also if i run a RSoP it does not look to apply this setting from this GPO to my PC.

Now i suspect that since it is a computer setting, it needs to be applied to computers, not to users ? Please can someone confirm.

Regards

Ronnie

[cluberti]

That is correct. When it gets set to be applied, it runs through the filter and tries to find the COMPUTER object. Since it never finds one that matches, it isn't applied.