Error Editing Logon Script

[PreviousPoster]

Running into an error while trying to edit my logon.vbs thru the Group Policy Object Editor

After I click down to it
User Configuration
Windows Settings
Scripts (Logon/Logoff)

I right click on Logon & bring up the Properties window. Click on the Edit button to bring up that window.

I click the Browse which then brings up the Browse Windows which shows my logon.vbs file. I right mouse click on this & select Edit

This then gives me an error window & I get the following message

"Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item"


I am logged in as the Domain Administrator. I have checked permissions & they look fine.

To edit this file I have been browsing to it via My Computer but it is a pain

An ideas on how to fix this so I can do my edits via the Group Policy Editor

thanks

[JerryC]

I have observed this sometimes. Our 'worth a try' work-around is the following:

Open the Editor on a GPO
Browse to
User Configuration
Windows Settings
Scripts (Logon/Logoff)
Right+click on Logon and select Properties
Click on the "Show Files..." button

Try editing the file in that location...

Better yet... if the GPO is 'active' (that is, if it is currently Enabled), then first make a copy of the script, edit that new copy (preferably test it "offline"), and then update the GPO to use that new script.

WARNING Just because you are in the "Editor" doesn't mean that the changes you are making are not being replicated and affecting client devices. If a GPO is Enabled, then whenever you edit "anything in the GPO", that change is immediately written and starts to replicate once you hit the Apply button on that setting. It has NOTHING to do with closing the editor.

For this reason, we have the master setting to NOT automatically Enable GPOs when created/linked configured for all out domains and we "Highly Recommended" this change to all others as a best practice.

To do this, enable the following setting in a GPO at the root of your domain. User Configuration | Administrative Templates | System | Group Policy | Create new Group Policy object links disbaled by default

[PreviousPoster]

Tried it that way & still get the same error window

[JerryC]

Have you tried explicitly adding your 'personal' account to the GPO with Full access rights on the Delegaation tab?