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RSAT released
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RSAT for Windows 7 RTM is finally here. And, well, good news / bad news, I suppose.
Good news: It's here and it works.
Download it from: http://tinyurl.com/qru5en
Bad news: It still shows some of the strangeness I first inspected during RC phase
Oddity #1: Items affecting policy setting removal that SHOULD be grayed out (and are grayed out in the Vista/WS08 RSAT) are not grayed out in Win7 RSAT.
The "Remove This Item When It No Longer Applies" GP Preferences setting isn't meant to work under ALL circumstances. For instance, it would be "bad" if this was set when Power Options (Windows XP), Regional Settings and Start Menu are utilized; else those values would be obliterated, and not REVERTED.
So, in the latest RSAT True; the checkbox is uncheckable, but it's not grayed out. There's definitely a violation of a "UI standard" to anything else in Microsoft land.
Not a super big deal, but odd, and one you should be aware of if you're using GP Preferences heavily and transitioning to Win7+RSAT.
Oddity #2: (bigger.. way bigger..).. I'll go out on a limb here and just proclaim that this one just HAS to be a bug, but I am unable to get direct confirmation.
In Win7 + RSAT all IE settings seem to permit the checkbox of "Remove this item when it is no longer applied."
And, what's worse, it actually WORKS. That is.. this setting will, indeed, REMOVE the values / items.
Which is bad.
In previous editions of RSAT, this setting was (correctly) restricted, so IE values wouldn't just be "obliterated."
So, what will IE "do" when those bajillions of registry values are suddenly DELETED ?
Who knows. In my simple tests, IE kept working. But .. will yours?
In previous iterations of GPPrefs, the option was grayed out to prevent this issue. Not anymore. It's got to be a bug. Just has to. (I think, anyway.)
I'm sure we'll learn more about this one going forward.
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