How to overcome a Destination Folder Access Denied Error when adding a Group Policy administrative template files for PCoIP?

Question

I'm following the Install the Group Policy administrative template for PCoIP (64-Bit) guide and I'm getting an error on step 6: "If it doesn't already exist, create a folder named PolicyDefinitions." When I attempt to create the folder I get a "Destination Folder Access Denied Error." I've attempted changing the ownership of the folder but that access is denied as well. Any ideas how I can create this folder?

All help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Turns out the user from which I was trying to create the folder is not part of the "Group Policies Creators Owners" group.

The simplest way to fix this is to login to the domain joined machine(workspace/EC2) with directory administrator(Administrator) credentials of your simpleAD domain. Once you have a logged into the machine you can create the folder.

My EC2 instance was not domain joined so I had to manually domain join a Windows instance as described here.


Once you are logged as a directory administrator you should be able to create the folders in the sysvol, you can follow the steps here.

Alternatively you can RDP to the workspaces with domain administrator credentials by following the steps here.