Author: Mandy Tidwell, Senior Consultant As many of you may have noticed, the FDCC Group Policy settings spreadsheet and FDCC Group Policy Objects (GPOs) downloaded from NIST ( http://csrc.nist.gov/fdcc ) contain settings that are not exposed by...

Author: Paul Fox, Senior Consultant Scenario : A customer wants a custom power plan for their laptop images. This is a frequent request to meet new Green initiatives in Federal and State governments. Here are the steps to incorporate a scripted...

[Authors: Aaron Margosis and Shelly Bird] We recently noted in testing some problems with the Disable Java setting. We had stated in a recent FDCC LiveMeeting that the "Java Permissions/Disable Java" IE security zone settings only apply to the Microsoft...

Author: Paul Fox, Senior Consultant Question : Is it possible to save more than 1 Set of Recovery Keys to a single USB drive? Answer: Yes, you can save multiple BitLocker recovery keys to single USB drive. The size of a key is 124 bytes. More...

Author: Joel Yoker, Principal Consultant A reader recently sent in a question about the GPO Import script and a syntax error they received at line 356. We were able to reproduce the error and it appears to be a "cut and paste" error between the...