Critical Group Policy Bug with XP/SP2 ADM Templates

Those of you who take my class or read the latest book
know I talk about a concept called a "Management Station."
Your Mangement Station is where you DO your Group Policy work
from.

You could create a new GPO by walking up to a Windows 2000 DC,
then modify that same GPO by walking up to your Windows XP PC
and editing it there. In this scenario, you've used two
"Management Stations" -- both the Windows 2000 DC and
the Windows XP PC.

The problem we need to take a moment to discuss is what happens
when you use templates from Windows XP/SP2 and use them
on any management station OTHER THAN XP/SP2.

When you do, you'll get something like this:
http://www.moskowitz-inc.com/images/strings_problem.png


And you'll get it about 50 (yes, 50) times (with
various error messages.)

Here's the link from Microsoft which describes the problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842933

But what is this technote really saying?

It's saying that you'll need to apply a patch
on any management station you modify Group Policy from.
Does this mean you have to patch EVERY server
and EVERY workstation? NO! You only need to patch
the locations from WHERE YOU CREATE AND EDIT GPOs.

So, where do you find the patches?

If you use Windows 2000 as your management
station, you can use this patch, here:
http://tinyurl.com/4ze3y

Patches for XP/SP1 and WS03-RTM are forthcoming.
I'll have an announcement on the BBS when Microsoft
releases them.

[AdamV]

UPDATE:
this article
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=842933
has links to patches for w2000 sp3+ and W2003. Advice for XP is "get sp2".