I am trying to deploy some management MSI files via GPO running on Server 2012 (not R2) and the GPOs aren't being deployed to the Windows 8 and 8.1 clients. However the GPO is is working fine to the windows 7 clients.
I've run gpresults /h gpreport.html and I checked and the GPO isn't in the report on any of the Windows 8 and 8.1 clients. The GPO does appear in the report on the Windows 7 clients.
Will have I have to upgrade the domain controllers to Server 2012 R2 to resolve this issue?
Best Answer
A few things to check:
The functional level of the domain controller. You may need it to be raised for Windows 8 to deploy properly.
Run rsop.msc on the Windows 8 machines to make sure the group police is being pushed to the Windows 8 machines
Make sure the Windows 8 machines are in the right Org Unit and that block policy inheritance is not turned on.
You might try installing RSAT for Windows 8, logging in as a Domain controller, and then configuring the Group policy that way. I have seen it cause certain settings to work when using a newer version of group policy manager.