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Consider the following scenario:

• You configure the Internet Explorer Maintenance Group Policy settings in an Active Directory domain or on a client computer.
• You start Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) on a Windows Vista-based client computer.
• You view the Group Policy results on the Settings tab.

In this scenario, the Group Policy settings for a Windows Vista-based client computer are not displayed correctly. However, the settings are successfully applied to the client computer.

Note: When you stat GPMC on a Windows XP-based computer or on a Windows Server 2003-based computer, the settings are displayed correctly.

When you try to use Windows Meeting Space (WMS) on a Windows Vista-based computer, you receive the following error message:

Group Policy might be preventing you from changing firewall settings. For assistance, contact your network administrator or technical support.

When you use the Group Policy Management Console to configure a Group Policy object for wireless access, you experience the following symptom.

When you click Microsoft: Protected EAP (PEAP) in the Select a network authentication method list, and then click Properties, the Select Authentication Method list appears in the Protected EAP Properties dialog box as expected. However, Secured password (EAP-MSCHAP v2) is the only item that is displayed in this list. When you click the drop-down arrow to expand the list, no other authentication methods are displayed. Therefore, you cannot select an alternative authentication method.

You experience this issue when you use the Group Policy Management Console in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Vista.

Note: For more information about how to view the Select Authentication Method list, see the “More Information” section.

In an Active Directory directory service domain environment, you configure the Internet Explorer Maintenance Group Policy settings. A user logs on to the domain from a Windows XP-based, or a Windows Server 2003-based client computer that has Internet Explorer 7 installed. However, the user experiences a 20-second logon delay compared with a client computer that has Internet Explorer 6 installed.

To verify this delay, you can view the contents of the Branding log file (Brndlog.txt) for Internet Explorer Maintenance.

Note: The Brndlog.txt file is in the following folder:

%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer

In the Branding log file, you may see the information that resembles the following:

10/25/2007 10:36:37        Refreshing browser settings...
10/25/2007 10:36:37        Broadcasting "Windows settings change" to all top level windows...
10/25/2007 10:36:57        Done.

This sample shows that a 20-second delay occurs in the following phase:

Broadcasting “Windows settings change” to all top level windows

On a Windows Vista-based computer, you configure the following Group Policy setting:

Delete user profiles older than a specified number of days on system restart

Therefore, you expect the user profiles that have not been used within the number of days that you specify to be automatically deleted when Windows Vista restarts. However, you notice that some user profiles that have been used within that period are unexpectedly deleted some days later.

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