Windows 7 group policy force screensaver

Next, you'll want to create a group that contains all those users. Create a GPO with the timeout you want and set the filtering for that group. Something strange happened last week with our user GPO's and I'm curious if anyone else has seen it. All of a sudden last Tuesday all user policies wouldn't apply. This was first noticed because screensaver was not kicking on.

Was there a patch or something release by Microsoft that caused us to require Domain Computers now in all GPO's with user settings only? I don't understand why this would have changed and the solution doesn't make any sense either. Thanks, this saved me a lot of work. Same time frame with the windows updates, same clue regarding the screen-saver not responding to the previous policy I had in effect.

I have found that if I want the policy to apply to all domain users I can simply use "Authenticated Users". If I have limited the application of the policy by username in the Security Filter, I had to add an additional entry for, "Domain Computers". I feared that adding that general security filter of Domain Computers, that all domain computers would react to the policy but that was not the case.

Once adding that entry things have been back to normal. This is a by-design change in Group Policy processing. For more information on the cause and resolution of this issue, see this article. For a Powershell script to automate the setting of the permissions to fix this, see this article. In my organisation, every PC has been updated the GP and its works well , except one PC ; as per GP result its correct no changes on that, but lock out policy not applied only in particular PC..

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Answering this question could address to the source of the problem: is it related to GPO or screensaver? Hello, I understand that your registry values are present, so policy seems to be deployed; but it isn't applied for some reason. Deploying a standard screensaver does it work? Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Server TechCenter. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access.