Hi,that entire document is referring to windows firewall exceptions, which as mentioned in my previous post we have disabled via group policy so I figured it doesn't apply?
The two policy settings;
DCOM: Machine access restrictions…
DCOM: Machine launch restrictions…
only seem to refer to the actual ACL settings, but not the 'master on off switch'.
As we do not use windows firewall, the other group policy setting doesn't seem to apply.
The closest thing I've found is to modify the registry setting;
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole]
"EnableDCOM"="Y"
applying that fixes the issue as it turned dcom on at the 'top' level (after a reboot), but I cannot seem to do this via group policy, and applying the available group policy changed still doesn't turn on dcom.
Also to further expand the above registry setting;
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole]
"DefaultLaunchPermission"=hex:01,00,04,80,5c,00,00,00,6c,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
14,00,00,00,02,00,48,00,03,00,00,00,00,00,18,00,1f,00,00,00,01,02,00,00,00,\
00,00,05,20,00,00,00,20,02,00,00,00,00,14,00,0b,00,00,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,\
00,05,04,00,00,00,00,00,14,00,0b,00,00,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,05,12,00,00,\
00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,20,02,00,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,\
20,00,00,00,20,02,00,00
"MachineLaunchRestriction"=hex:01,00,04,80,48,00,00,00,58,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
14,00,00,00,02,00,34,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,18,00,1f,00,00,00,01,02,00,00,00,\
00,00,05,20,00,00,00,20,02,00,00,00,00,14,00,0b,00,00,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,\
00,01,00,00,00,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,20,02,00,00,01,02,00,\
00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,20,02,00,00
"MachineAccessRestriction"=hex:01,00,04,80,44,00,00,00,54,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
14,00,00,00,02,00,30,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,14,00,03,00,00,00,01,01,00,00,00,\
00,00,05,07,00,00,00,00,00,14,00,07,00,00,00,01,01,00,00,00,00,00,01,00,00,\
00,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,05,20,00,00,00,20,02,00,00,01,02,00,00,00,00,00,\
05,20,00,00,00,20,02,00,00
"EnableDCOM"="Y"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole\AppCompat]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole\AppCompat\ActivationSecurityCheckExemptionList]
"{A50398B8-9075-4FBF-A7A1-456BF21937AD}"="1"
"{AD65A69D-3831-40D7-9629-9B0B50A93843}"="1"
"{0040D221-54A1-11D1-9DE0-006097042D69}"="1"
"{2A6D72F1-6E7E-4702-B99C-E40D3DED33C3}"="1"
that turns on DCOM AND sets the appropriate ACL settings, it works, but it's not a group policy solution, which is what we really need!
back to the drawing board? any suggestions?