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When you open the Group Policy Editor MMC snap-in tool, focused either on a local GPO or AD-based one, some Group Policy areas that are expected to appear may not be found.
Issue:
Some policy areas are missing when you open up the Group Policy editor. These missing policy areas are different than the ones that are normally missing when you’re focused on a local GPO.
Each area of policy functionality is implemented by an MMC snap-in DLL that is registered by default on a standard Windows 2000, 2003 or XP installation. Occasionally those DLLs can be un-registered or removed and when that happens, the underlying group policy editing functionality they implement will not appear in the Group Policy editor UI.
Solutions:
- Closing and reopening the Active Directory Group Policy manager may restore the policy areas. This solution has had mixed success.
- You may also try setting the “Options for domain controller selection” to “The one used by the Active Directory Snap-ins”. This is located under the View tab.
With administrative credentials, re-register the appropriate MMC snap-in DLL that implements the missing functionality by issuing the following commands at a Windows command prompt:
For 32bit Windows:
regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\gptext.dll
regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\fde.dll
regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\ieaksie.dll
regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\ipsecsnp.dll
regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\certmgr.dll
regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\rigpsnap.dll
regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\wscedit.dll
regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\appmgr.dll
For 64 Bit Windows:
regsvr32 %systemroot%\syswow64\gptext.dll
regsvr32 %systemroot%\syswow64\fde.dll
regsvr32 %systemroot%\syswow64\ieaksie.dll
regsvr32 %systemroot%\syswow64\ipsecpnp.dll
regsvr32 %systemroot%\syswow64\certmgr.dll
regsvr32 %systemroot%\syswow64\rigpsnap.dll
regsvr32 %systemroot%\syswow64\wscedit.dll
regsvr32 %systemroot%\syswow64\appmgr.dll
Uninstall Advanced Group Policy Management, reboot, then reinstall the application.
AGPM Change Control Fails
Change Control may fail when using AGPM 4 SP3 and Windows 10 with the error: “Text: CoCreateInstance of the client remoting object failed! HRESULT: 0x0000000080131700 Message:” You will also see that the Archive cannot be found. Here is a workaround for this issue. Enabling .NET 3.5 may also require this workaround due to STIG settings.