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Group Policy Preferences
Group Policy preferences is something new in Windows Server 2008. It used to be that adding group policies for things like mapped drives, printers, and Control Panel settings was a pain, and you had to drill down several nested layers all over the place to change anything. But with Group Policy preferences, all these common settings are now lumped together in one place, easy to change. It’s a really handy way to easily do what used to be a lot harder. The problem is, these settings only get applied in Windows 7. Anything older, even Vista, will just ignore them
Event ID 27
I was getting Event ID 27 on a server. The error read: Time Provider NtpClient: The response received from domain controller <host dns name> is missing the signature. The response may have been tampered with and will be ignored. This sounds likes a scary message, with warnings that the response has been tampered with, but like many messages it just means that there was some glitch and the servers aren’t syncing correctly anymore. I found the solution at EventID.net, and it’s pretty simple. Just open a command prompt and run this command: w32tm /resync /rediscover After that the time synced
