Guys
My boss just asked me an odd question. We had an odd thing happen yesterday, and my boss thinks it has to do with a GPO that someone at our Parent organization was working on, and they applied it wrong, it caused problems, and then they took it out. While that is possible, I don't think it is very probable. The problem was that a group of machines that we recently migrated stopped responding to a set of pings that go out every 20 minutes. This happened on two different occasions to 60 PCs yesterday. I am pretty sure that the problem was a DNS issue at our Parent not seeing our new DNS entries for these workstations, but he swears it was a GPO that was incorrectly applied. That the problem went away when we rebooted the "problem" machines. I advised him that more than likely the rebooting just forced a new registration in DNS, and the pinging machines had the TTL expire on the old leases and then did a new lookup and things started working. He doesn't believe that. He wants a log of the policies that were in place on these machines when it happened, and what are in place now. I told him i can show him what is in place now, but it might be tricky to get him a Then picture.
He pointed out the %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Group Policy\History folder. He wants to know why all GPOs are not logged in here with what is happening, and when.
Any thoughts on what I should tell him. is it possible to get all GPOs to log to that folder.
thanks
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