Users without applied GPOs (Windows)

Module: Active Directory

Supported Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008

This check reports all users in an ADS domain that do not have group policy objects (GPOs) applied to them. This check is intended to run only on domain controllers to produce results for specific domains.

The following table lists the error message for the check.

Table: Error message for Users without applied GPOs

Message String ID and Category

Platform and Message Numeric ID

Message Title and Description

Additional Information

String ID: ESM_USER_WITHOUT_APPLIED_GPOS

Category: Policy Compliance

  • Windows 2000 (108133)

  • Windows 2003 (208133)

  • Windows 2008 (251133)

Title: User without applied GPOs

Description:There are no group policy objects (GPOs) applied to the named user through sites, domains, or organizational units. This could mean that your security policy is not enforced for this user.

Severity: yellow-2

Correctable: false

Snapshot Updatable: false

Template Updatable: false

Information Field Format: [%s]