Re: Subject: Group Policy, Groups, Users, OU's: GPO not taking effect

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (August Hour) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Server: Windows Server 2003 
> Workstation: Windows XP Professional 
> 
> I need help with Active Directory and group policies.  Does anybody
> know if users and groups have to be in the same organizational units
> for a GPO to take effect?  If I have users in one OU while groups in
> another OU and if I apply the GPO to the OU containing the groups,
> will the group policy take effect if I login as a user in a client
> computer?  Also, the OU with the users is not the child of the OU that
> contains the groups.

I do believe that the problem is the child-parent relationship.  I'm
no AD guru, but I think that if the users' OU is a child of the
groups', you'll get the behavior you desire.