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Hi all, Mike here again. Back in July of 2007, I posted a blog explaining how to enable Group Policy Preferences debug logging using RSAT. As a refresher, Group Policy Preferences debug logging is enabled through Group Policy administrative templates.
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Mike here again. Many Group Policy features rely on a well connected network for their success. However, not every connection is perfect or ideal; some connections are slow. The Group Policy infrastructure has always provided functionality to detect slow
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PolicyMaker customers rejoice—Microsoft has a way for you to migrate from PolicyMaker 2.x to the new Group Policy preferences released with Windows Server 2008 and included in the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or
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This download includes updated Group Policy Administrative Template and Office Customization Tool OPA files; an updated Office Customization Tool; and ADMX and ADML versions of the Administrative Template files. This update assumes that you have updated
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Hello everyone, Brian here. I was working with a colleague on an issue in which the customer was receiving the following Userenv event in their application event logs: (Event ID 1054) Windows cannot obtain the domain controller name for your computer
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Ned here again. William Stanek has released a couple of new books through Microsoft Press that any AD administrator will find indespensible: Active Directory Administrator's Pocket Consultant Group Policy Administrator's Pocket Consultant In William's
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Hello AskDS Blog Readers! A common request we hear is how to automatically connect specific network shares to drive letters based on group membership. Mapping network drives based on group membership requires some programming knowledge-- either VBScript
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Hello everyone, Brian Singleton here. Here’s a question I often get from customer regarding Windows Time: “Is there a way I can configure the Windows Time settings via Group Policy and have it only apply to the domain controller that holds the PDC FSMO
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As promised here is the second part of Understanding How to Read a Userenv Log (see Part 1 if you missed it). Most of the time when we need to enable Userenv logging is due to a delay of getting to the desktop after entering our credentials. Normally
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Hey everyone, this is Mark from the Directory Services team. We get calls all the time where enabling Userenv logging is necessary to see exactly what is happening with group policy and profile loading. If you have ever looked at one it can be confusing
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Be sure to check out the Troubleshooting: Quick Fixes post over at the Group Policy blog for some tips on solving common Group Policy issues. - Craig Landis
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Ned here with a quick heads up. The IE 8 dev blog has posted some news about Group Policy changes in Internet Explorer 8. It's definitely worth a read: Group Policy Support Updated in IE8 The article is mainly tickler, but it links to the extremely interesting:
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Hi, Ned here again. You may remember Mike Stephens writing about importing and exporting WMI filters back in May. A common follow up question we got from that blog post was: “ Hey cool. So, uh, what are WMI filters again?” Group Policy WMI
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Ned here again. A few months ago Mark Aggar, Pat Stemen, and Michael Walsh wrote an excellent TechNet Magazine article on using group policy to save power. This article gives specific examples as well as fully documents all 35 power management settings
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“I don’t want my users copying data to removable drives. How can I prevent this?” It’s a common question asked to our team. Removable drives are widespread. Current mobile devices can now store up to 8 GB of data on a micro-SD card, which is no bigger
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