GPMC : 0x80070005 – access denied – E_Accessdenied

Willing to change a GPO at customer, i had this error message from GPMC, and gpo was not modified:

By using Process Monitor, from Sysinternals, access to registry.pol file is refused while i am domain admin:

This is following an authoritative restore, and files are indeed with the read only attribute:

After removing the read only attribute, gpo changes are working again 🙂

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