Windows 7 Group Policy Errors

[just_david]

We're getting a lot of group policy errors in our event logs when computers boot up and gpupdate, an example being:

The computer 'Video Player.lnk' preference item in the 'Client: Added Removed Shortcuts {AEC5820E-90B1-440B-A30D-85F355121111}' Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code '0x80070002 The system cannot find the file specified.' This error was suppressed.

 

We have a group policy that deletes that shortcut on every PC.

Now it was running every time a computer updates or starts so the error was more or less expected.

But now I'm trying to stop so many errors, but hitting a bit of a brick wall.

 

My first though was to set the group policy to run once - I do want to delete the file on all machines so i don't want to disable the policy altogether.

However the same errors still occur every time the computers start and update

 

Should that be happening or am i misunderstanding how the run once and do not reapply setting works?

[fleXx]

Rather than doing this via GP, how about doing it via a script? I'm no good at scripting myself but an idea could be to create a vbs script that checks to see if the shortcuts exist, and if they do remove them?

 

Have you thought about creating a default profile and removing the shortcuts that way? Obviously that would mean reimagine all of your machines though...

[just_david]

I don't want these bits running every time though, I just want them to run once then not run again.

[fleXx]

As a test, try enabling Item level targeting and applying it to a computer in a group, and see if it works then?

[just_david]

I've had to outright disable the group policies for now, its worked, down from 30 gp errors to 2 every restart.

The run once option is still my preference, but it just didn't seem to work