Group Policy settings are not replicated between domain controllers. Therefore, users do not receive Group Policy settings for computers. The following events appear in the Application log in Microsoft Windows Server 2003:
Additionally, the following events may appear in the Application log every five minutes in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1058
Description: Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO CN={31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=domainname,DC=com . The file must be present at the location <\\domainname.com\sysvol\domainname.com\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984 F9}\gpt.ini>. (Error_Message). Group Policy processing aborted. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://support.microsoft.com.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1030
Description: Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. A message that describes the reason for this was previously logged by the policy engine. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://support.microsoft.com.
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1058
Description: Windows cannot access the file gpt.ini for GPO CN={31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9},CN=Policies,CN=System,DC=domainname,DC=com . The file must be present at the location <\\domainname.com\sysvol\domainname.com\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984 F9}\gpt.ini>. (Error_Message). Group Policy processing aborted. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://support.microsoft.com.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Userenv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1030
Description: Windows cannot query for the list of Group Policy objects. A message that describes the reason for this was previously logged by the policy engine. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://support.microsoft.com.
Additionally, the following events may appear in the Application log every five minutes in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server:
Event Type: Error
Event ID: 1000
Source: Userenv
Category: None
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Description: Windows cannot access the registry information at \\domain\sysvol\domain\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\Machine\registry.pol with (5).
Event Type: Error
Event ID: 1001
Source: SceCli
Category: None
User: N/A
Description: Security policy cannot be propagated. Cannot access the template. Error code =3. \\domain\sysvol\domain\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\Machine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecEdit\GptTmpl.inf.
Event Type: Error
Event ID: 1000
Source: Userenv
Category: None
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Description: The Group Policy client-side extension Security was passed flags (17) and returned a failure status code of (3).
Event ID: 1000
Source: Userenv
Category: None
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Description: Windows cannot access the registry information at \\domain\sysvol\domain\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\Machine\registry.pol with (5).
Event Type: Error
Event ID: 1001
Source: SceCli
Category: None
User: N/A
Description: Security policy cannot be propagated. Cannot access the template. Error code =3. \\domain\sysvol\domain\Policies\{31B2F340-016D-11D2-945F-00C04FB984F9}\Machine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecEdit\GptTmpl.inf.
Event Type: Error
Event ID: 1000
Source: Userenv
Category: None
User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
Description: The Group Policy client-side extension Security was passed flags (17) and returned a failure status code of (3).