Identifying Group Policy Client-Side Extensions

ID: Q216357

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

SUMMARY

Group Policy architecture includes both server and client-side components. The server component includes the user interface that an administrator can use to configure a unique policy. When Group Policy is applied to a user or computer, the client component interprets the policy and makes the appropriate changes to the environment. These are known as Group Policy client-side extensions. A Globally Unique Identifier (GUID), a 128-bit number identifying a given object, identifies the extension to the operating system. As Group Policy is processed, the Winlogon process passes the list of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) that must be processed to each Group Policy client-side extension. The extension uses the list to process the appropriate policy when applicable.

When viewing event log entries and log files recorded by Group Policy and these client-side extensions, an administrator may need to identify the extension by its GUID.

MORE INFORMATION

Because the GUID for each client-side extension was assigned when the component was created, the GUIDs for each of the client-side extensions documented below are the same on each installation of Windows 2000.

GUID: 25537BA6-77A8-11D2-9B6C-0000F8080861
Component: Folder Redirection

GUID: 3610EDA5-77EF-11D2-8DC5-00C04FA31A66
Component: Microsoft Disk Quota

GUID: 42B5FAAE-6536-11D2-AE5A-0000F87571E3
Component: Scripts

GUID: 827D319E-6EAC-11D2-A4EA-00C04F79F83A
Component: Security

GUID: B1BE8D72-6EAC-11D2-A4EA-00C04F79F83A
Component: EFS Recovery

GUID: C6DC5466-785A-11D2-84D0-00C04FB169F7
Component: Application Management

GUID: A2E30F80-D7DE-11d2-BBDE-00C04F86AE3B
Component: Internet Explorer Settings

GUID: 25537BA6-77A8-11D2-9B6C-0000F8080861
Component: Registry Settings

GUID: e437bc1c-aa7d-11d2-a382-00c04f991e27
Component: IP Security

Third-party programs and additional Microsoft services that install client-side extensions register those components in the following registry location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\GPExtensions

For additional information about the GPExtensions registry entry, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q216358 Troubleshooting Group Policy Client-Side Extension Behavior

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbenv kbtool
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo