Wow, its already Wednesday; time for another entry. Last week I wrote about the new user profile policy settings for Windows Vista. This week, I want to highlight a couple policy settings included in the Windows Logon Options. The Windows Logon...

Ok, its time for another update in the continuous saga of new Group Policy settings included with Windows Vista. This week I am going to focus on policy settings for the Event Logging Service. For clarity, these settings control the Event Logging...

OK, we'd be the first to admit that we took a while to catch on but the Group Policy team has finally caught the wave - we have a blog!! Yes, a tad overdue but we're here now and we hope you'll find this a valuable, informative and enjoyable read. ...

In a previous blog post I looked at understanding the raw GPO version number . The example I gave in that article was the version number associated with a local Group Policy object (GPO). Now, let's look at the version number associated with a domain...

The Group Policy Team wants your feedback. We are looking to improve Group Policy Explain text, so your experience with Group Policy will be even better. How would you like to see Explain text improved? Sock it to us! Let us know what you love and...

There's a cool new forum on TechNet for Windows Server 2008/Vista Group Policy topics: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=2023&SiteID=17 There has already been some discussion, check it out!

If you’ve been exploring Group Policy preferences using Windows Server 2008 or Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows Vista, you may be wondering what client computers require to recognize GP preference settings. After all, GP preference...

Hi GP fanatics, Did you know that you can import/export WMI filters using GPMC? Yes, you can; however, you must do it one filter at a time. You export each filter to a single .mof file. You can then take this .mof file to a new or different domain...

The Microsoft Group Policy team would like to hear from you! Please take a few minutes and complete the survey on how you use Group Policy to help Microsoft enhance the manageability Group Policy provides to your organization. The survey can be found...

Based upon quite a number of customer requests, we packaged all of the .admx/.adml files that shipped with Microsoft Windows Vista RTM and made that package available on the download center. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID...

Part 1 of this topic provided two ADM file examples to show how to create and set the default value of a registry key to block or allow cookies for Internet Explorer. In the Part 1 examples, the policy settings allowed or blocked cookies depending on...

Version 1.2 includes: (1) Enhancements and bug fixes to support a wider range of ADM templates for conversion to ADMX. (2) Enhancements to code and documentation for conversion error reporting and warnings. (3) Improved handling of internationalized ADMX...

We have stated a number of times through a number of forums that its not a great practice to muck around with the Default Domain Policy and the Default Domain Controllers Policy. In fact its actually a really bad practice...same goes with the SYSVOL....

How to: use F5-F6-F7-F8 to control what settings you want pushed out, lock down the Advanced tab with a preference setting to act like policy Last time I talked about how to use F5-F8 keys to use the glanularity that we love so much about Preferences...

Awhile ago we had a customer call come in. The customer had a major problem in Windows Server 2008. When they tried to map drives through a script it didnt work. The customer had initially applied a Login script as a start up script and then changed...

In the last week, we have published a new dedicated page that covers DesktopStandard transition and support information: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/gp/desktopstandard.mspx Why publish this page now? The...

The Group Policy team at Microsoft would like to hear from you about how you currently manage your servers and server-based applications and how you’d like manage them in the future. Please take this anonymous online survey at http://www.surveymonkey...

During this morning’s keynote at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles, technical fellow Mark Russinovich demonstrated the Set-GPRegistryValue cmdlet. He points out the power of scripting; a few lines created a GPO, configured a registry value, and linked it to...

Head on over to the Script Center this week (February 9-12) where the Scripting Guys are focusing on Group Policy scripting! Topics: How Can I List All Group Policy Objects in a Domain? (Mon. - 2/9/09) How Can Get a List of All My Orphaned...

Every now and then, as Program Manager’s for the Group Policy team, they let us out of out building to go and speak to customers and chat to them about their issues and problems. Often customer begin by outlining their pain and iterating a problem that...

Derek Melber , a recently mentioned Group Policy MVP, will be giving several seminars this coming week. These seminars cover a bunch of topics, like troubleshooting, managing passwords, and controlling software installation with Group Policy. To check...

We had a question a couple of days ago about the usage of ADMX template formats in Windows XP/Server 2003 environments. Essentially the question was: “…What’s the supported or recommended way of getting W2k8 ADMX templates applying in a W2k3 domain with...

It’s interesting what you can discover when you right-click on something. For example, in the Group Policy Management Console (the GPMC) you can right-click on a domain and select “Search”, and a this amazing tool presents itself. This handy search tool...

There is new content lurking in the Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) TechNet Library . Stop by for information about everything from choosing which version to install to how to back up and restore the archive. What’s new and choosing which version...

Hello GP Junkies! My name is Bryan Garretson, and I want to let you know about an interesting way we were able to leverage the new PowerShell cmdlets available in Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows 7: to anticipate and test around replication delays in...