[cifs-protocol] [REG:119021819676760] Group Policy GPT.INI file encoding
Garming Sam
garming at catalyst.net.nz
Tue Mar 19 21:27:41 UTC 2019
Hi,
Only Denis knows the exact details, but I expect that all he did was to
have a French version of Windows, installed RSAT, opened the group
policy editor and created a new GPO of that name (and copied the
resulting file from the sysvol).
Cheers,
Garming
On 7/03/19 10:13 AM, Obaid Farooqi wrote:
>
> Hi Garming:
>
> Thanks for the file.
>
> Is it possible to list the steps that were used to create this file?
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>
>
> Regards,
>
> Obaid Farooqi
>
> Escalation Engineer | Microsoft
>
>
>
> Exceeding your expectations is my highest priority. If you would like
> to provide feedback on your case you may contact my manager at
> ramagane at Microsoft dot com
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>
> *From:*Garming Sam <garming at catalyst.net.nz>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2019 3:56 PM
> *To:* Obaid Farooqi <obaidf at microsoft.com>
> *Cc:* cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org; MSSolve Case Email
> <casemail at microsoft.com>; Denis CARDON <dcardon at tranquil.it>
> *Subject:* Re: [cifs-protocol] [REG:119021819676760] Group Policy
> GPT.INI file encoding
>
>
>
> I've been made aware that mail clients can mess with encodings, so
> here's the previous file zipped as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Garming
>
> On 5/03/19 10:45 AM, Garming Sam via cifs-protocol wrote:
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> Hi,
>
>
>
> Attached is an example from Denis. (It seems to read 'New Group Policy
>
> Object', so it looks like it even might be broken on the default
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> generated name)
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>
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> The accented e appears to be at position E9 in the Latin-1 code page,
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> while the UTF-8 representation is supposed to be two bytes, C3 A9.
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>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Garming
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>
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> On 1/03/19 6:18 AM, Obaid Farooqi wrote:
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> Hi Garming:
>
> Can you please send me a gpt.ini that has non-UTF8 characters?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Obaid Farooqi
>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 3:01 PM
>
> To: Garming Sam <garming at catalyst.net.nz> <mailto:garming at catalyst.net.nz>
>
> Cc: MSSolve Case Email <casemail at microsoft.com> <mailto:casemail at microsoft.com>; cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org <mailto:cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org>; Denis CARDON <dcardon at tranquil.it> <mailto:dcardon at tranquil.it>
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> Subject: RE: [REG:119021819676760] Group Policy GPT.INI file encoding
>
>
>
> Hi Garming:
>
> I'll help you with this issue and will be in touch as soon as I have an answer.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Obaid Farooqi
>
> Escalation Engineer | Microsoft
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> From: "Edgar Olougouna" <edgaro at microsoft.com> <mailto:edgaro at microsoft.com>
>
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2019 8:43 PM
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> To: "Garming Sam" <garming at catalyst.net.nz> <mailto:garming at catalyst.net.nz>
>
> Cc: "MSSolve Case Email" <casemail at microsoft.com> <mailto:casemail at microsoft.com>; "cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org" <mailto:cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org> <cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org> <mailto:cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org>; "Denis CARDON" <dcardon at tranquil.it> <mailto:dcardon at tranquil.it>
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> Subject: [REG:119021819676760] Group Policy GPT.INI file encoding
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>
>
> Hello Garming, Denis,
>
> Glad to hear from you Denis. Thank you Garming for reaching out.
>
> One of our team members will look into this and follow-up soon.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Edgar
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> From: Garming Sam <garming at catalyst.net.nz> <mailto:garming at catalyst.net.nz>
>
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2019 4:42 PM
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> To: Interoperability Documentation Help <dochelp at microsoft.com> <mailto:dochelp at microsoft.com>
>
> Cc: cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org <mailto:cifs-protocol at lists.samba.org>; Denis CARDON <dcardon at tranquil.it> <mailto:dcardon at tranquil.it>
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> Subject: Group Policy GPT.INI file encoding
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> According to Denis, cc'd here, using a French RSAT appears to be
>
> writing GPT.INI files which are not UTF-8, but instead using ISO-8859 to
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> represent accented characters (in the display name for a GPO).
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>
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> [MS-GPOL] 2.2.4 GPO Search
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> https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmsdn.
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> microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Flibrary%2Fcc232507.aspx&data=02%7C01%7C%7C6e1b1f
>
> a5c69d4f39b07008d6955b9580%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C
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> 636860617932917342&sdata=y21TJvHpxyDDeE5nHJW8j1PL2Sk46BWe6lj%2FwjLQkCM%3
>
> D&reserved=0
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>
>
> "The gpt.ini file MUST be encoded in UTF-8..."
>
>
>
> According the the documentation, it is required to be UTF-8, so
>
> something doesn't quite add up here. Denis can probably reconfirm
>
> himself, but any assistance reproducing or confirming this behaviour
>
> would be appreciated. Assuming this is an issue, it's unclear what the
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> effect of other locales is.
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>
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> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Garming
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