The Basics of Group Policies

Reading up on a lot of missed posts

Eric Denekamp — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:16:15 GMT

I encountered this jewel . It is a brilliant post on Group policy. Just the info you needed to really

re: The Basics of Group Policies

Chris Warwick — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:53:53 GMT

Good article - thanks!

Since you're looking at the internals of Group Policy processing it might be worth mentioning the role of the Dfs client. Specifically Dfs is used by the client to connect to the Sysvol to read group policy. This isn't clearly stated in many places - a while back it wasn't stated anywhere.

I bashfully admit that many years ago while hardening/locking down machine configurations I disabled (via GPO) the client Dfs service; it was just an extra service we weren't using, or so we thought, so best practice was to disable it. Of course, this was a one-way step. Apart from taking an age to debug the resulting mess it couldn't even be backed out by reverting to the old policy (since policy processing had stopped!)

Whenever I'm describing GPO to others I've always made a point of mentioning this:-)

Thanks,

Chris

Overview of Internet Explorer Group Policies

Ask the Performance Team — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:59:40 GMT

Today we're going to discuss IE Group Policies. If you're unfamiliar with Group Policies, I highly recommend

re: The Basics of Group Policies

Kris — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:20:38 GMT

Thanks for sharing this nugget. I am a developer and am interested in just knowing about how some of the Windows components without going too much into depth and this is just the right amount content I would look for without getting too bogged down in the trenches.