When you enable a Group Policy setting in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or in Microsoft Windows XP, all the check boxes that appear on the Group Policy setting are not selected. However, when you enable a Group Policy setting in Windows Vista, all the check boxes that appear on the Group Policy setting are selected.

You enable either of the following policy settings:

• Hide and disable all items on the desktop on a domain controller
• Disable all items in Windows Vista

Then, you experience the following symptoms:

• A black desktop appears on the Windows Vista-based client computers that are affected by either of these policy settings.
• This black desktop replaces the image that is configured as the background wallpaper.

  Note: The Windows Vista Gadgets still appear on the desktop in Windows Vista.

You experience this problem if you use the Desktop Wallpaper policy setting to configure an image as the background wallpaper in Windows Vista.

Note: For more information about how to view the Desktop Wallpaper policy setting, see the “More Information” section.

When you run the gpupdate /force command on a computer that is running Windows Vista, the following error results are returned:

Updating Policy…

User policy could not be updated successfully. The following errors were encountered:

The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not resolve the computer name. This could be caused by one of more of the following:
a) Name Resolution failure on the current domain controller.
b) Active Directory Replication Latency (an account created on another domain controller has not replicated to the current domain controller).
Computer Policy update has completed successfully.

To diagnose the failure, review the event log or invoke gpmc.msc to access information about Group Policy results.

Note: In these results, the phrase “one of more of the following” incorrectly appears instead of the phrase “one or more of the following.”

You experience this problem if the User Group Policy loopback processing mode policy setting is enabled on the computer.

Note: For information about how to view this policy setting, see the “More Information” section.

Consider the following scenario. On a Microsoft Windows Vista-based computer, you redirect folder A to the same location as non-redirectable folder B. In this scenario, you experience the following problems:

• Folder A can no longer perform Group Policy redirection.
• Folder A no longer lets you perform manual redirection.

Additionally, consider the following scenario. On a Windows Vista-based computer, you redirect folder A to the same location as a different redirectable folder B. You move all the contents of folder A to the new location. In this scenario, you experience the following problems:

• Folder A merges with folder B, and you cannot separate the folders.
• Folder A is listed two times in the user profiles folder in Windows Explorer.

For example, you redirect the Music folder to the location of the Pictures folder, and then you move all the contents of the Music folder to the new location. In this scenario, the Music folder merges with the Pictures folder, and you cannot separate the folders. Then, the Music folder is listed two times in the user profiles folder in Windows Explorer.

You log on to Windows Vista on a new computer after a Group Policy setting has changed the folder redirection location of the My Documents folder. After you do this, you do not see the expected files in the My Documents folder.

After you upgrade a computer to Windows Vista, and then you join the computer to a domain, the user policy settings may not be applied as expected.

You enable the Remove Search Computer Link Group Policy setting in Windows Vista. Then, the setting removes the Search the Internet option that is in the Start menu search box. However, the setting does not remove the See all results option that is in the Start menu search box as expected.

When you try to connect to a shared printer in Windows Vista, you receive the following error message:

Windows cannot connect to the printer. The printer driver is not compatible with a policy enabled on your computer that blocks NT 4.0 drivers.

You experience this behavior if the following conditions are true:

• You use the Windows Point and Print feature to connect to the shared printer.

  Note: The Point and Print feature lets you print to a shared printer without manually installing a new driver. For more information about this feature, see the “More Information” section.

• The shared printer uses a kernel mode printer driver.