Today I learned about a resource available for administrators of many of Microsoft's most popular products. For those who are tasked with day-to-day management of such products as Active Directory or Exchange, it's sometimes difficult to know what needs to be done on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. It...

In the previous post, I talked about the structure of a GPO. Now, I'll turn to the question of what a client does in order to apply the settings that we've configured in our GPOs. The processing of GPOs is initiated from the client side rather than being pushed from your Domain Controllers. As such,...

As a Windows administrator, you almost certainly have used Group Policies to control the settings deployed to the clients of your Active Directory infrastructure. But with Group Policies getting such heavy use, not as many administrators fully understand how Group Policy Objects (GPOs) are structured...