Manage Windows Vista policy from WS 2003

[jpatto]

Is it possible to manage a Windows Vista policy from a Windows Server 2003 edition? if yes how?

Thanks

[eXtermia]

I had user based policies like for the deskop disabling themes. When the user logged into Vista it disabled themes as well. I didnt change any policies.

[nmX.Memnoch]

I'm sure some of XP's policies will work on Vista. It's a case where you should use WMI filtering to prevent them from applying to Vista machines though...that is, if you want your XP and Vista policies to be different from each other (which I personally would).

Just create a WMI filter on root\CIMv2 with a query like this:

Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem where Caption like "Microsoft Windows XP%"

Then apply that filter to the GPOs that you want to apply only to Windows XP. I don't have any Vista machines in my domain yet, but the filter for that would probably be something like:

Select * from Win32_OperatingSystem where Caption like "Microsoft Windows Vista%"

[fizban2]

Vista Policies are stored in ADMX files, it is different then the policies for Xp and older machines, some policies will work for vista and others won't with GPO in 2003 now

Managing Group Policy ADMX Files Step-by-Step Guide