Organizational policy question, adding bookmarks through the desktop settings document.. Help!

I’m in the process of testing with R6 features and have a problem with the Organizational policies based on OU’s. I would love to find out if this is the way polices are supposed to work or not?

I created 3 OU levels, let’s say they are called: OU-1,OU-2 and OU-3. OU-3 is a child of OU-2 who’s a child of OU-1. I created a policy with a desktop settings document on each OU level. Each settings document is designed to add bookmarks to different applications onto the user’s desktop.

I was hoping (and kind of expecting) that a user who’s registered under OU-3 would receive bookmarks from the OU-3 policy and in addition to that would inherit bookmarks listed in the policy for the OU-1 and OU-2 level. I have played with the “Inherit Default connection Settings from Parent” + “Enforce Default Connection Settings in children” checkboxes but I’m only able to apply bookmarks from one policy to my OU-3 user, but I’m not able to apply the bookmarks setting from the policies of OU-1 + OU-2 and OU-3 to my OU-3 user combined.

Does anybody know if R6 was designed to work as described or am I doing something wrong? Any help is appreciated…

Marc

Subject: just a guess…

It looks like the list of bookmarks is stored in the same field in each Desktop Settings document, so only one such list can apply to any given user. If */OU3 is the policy closest to the end user, the bookmarks specified in its desktop settings will probably win. The policy synopsis tool may be some help verifying this…

Subject: Re: just a guess…

I’m afraid that you are right, it uses the same field in different desktop setting documents.

I guess the only way to implement this right is to update each desktop settings document if a new application is rolled out to the organization. That’s confusing and a lot of extra work but it will work. Thanks for your response…