hello, i am trying to evaluate system center essentials 2010, and would like to use domain-level group policy, however the option is greyed out. a year ago, i was testing sce 2007 and never fully uninstalled it, so i have followed the instructions here: http://blog.exceedio.com/2008/05/15/reinstalling-system-center-essentials-2007/. i have also ran the following command from the machine that i just installed sce 2010 on: SCECertPolicyConfigUtil.exe /Uninstall /ManagementGroup OLDSCEMACHINE_MG. however, the option is still greyed out. i have sce 2010 installed on an 2008 server machine, my ad is on a 2003 machine. any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

Hello, Please try the following commands and if you still face the issue please refer to the link listed below. Command: SCECertPolicyConfigUtil.exe /ManagementGroup <management group name> /uninstall To configure to Domain Policy: SCECertPolicyConfigUtil.exe /ManagementGroup /PolicyType Domain /SCEServer <Essentials Server FQDN> /AEMFileShare /AEMPort 51906 /ConfigureAEM trueYou can refer to the similar thread:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/systemcenterdeployment/thread/9b8674e4-6532-48af-ac29-9c09df869582Thanks, AnshuThis posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

thanks, it was an unlinked gpo that was the culprit.