Re: ZEN6.5 and XP SP3

[Craig Wilson]

They should work just fine.
ZENworks role is simply to copy the policy files to the PC and they are
actually processed by Native Windows Code.

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"pashar" <pas...@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> I realise ZEN 6.5 support was ceased in Sept 2007 and Windows XP SP3
> was released around May 2008. I presume then that XP Sp3 is not really
> supported with ZEN 6.5. It probably works but any new Group Policies in
> XP SP3 are not able to be deployed by ZEN; correct?
>
> Thanks
>
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[Anders Gustafsson]

Pashar,

> It probably works but any new Group Policies in
> XP SP3 are not able to be deployed by ZEN; correct?
>

Not necessarily. It might work anyway. If all fails, you can create a
fimple App object to push out the registry entries

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[Anders Gustafsson]

Pashar,
> I presume any new Policy Packages that
> include Windows Group Policy should be created on a Windows XP SP3
> machine. These policies should then work on SP1 to SP3?
>
Yes, AFAIK.

[craig wilson]

The main caveat is that XP SP3 supports things that XP SP1 does not.
Any GP Settings that are not understood by XP SP1 will simply be ignored.