Federal Desktop Core Configuration

Utilities for automating Local Group Policy management

This page will be kept updated to point to the most recent versions of utilities for automating the management of Local Group Policy Objects.  When new versions are posted to the blog, this page will be updated with the URLs of those posts.

Set_FDCC_LGPO -- applies all the FDCC Group Policies published by NIST on their web site to the Local Group Policy of the Windows XP or Windows Vista computer you run the utility on.

• Latest version, Q1 2009 [updated 2009-09-15]:  http://blogs.technet.com/fdcc/archive/2009/09/15/new-and-updated-local-group-policy-utilities.aspx
• Latest published source code [updated 2009-09-15]:  http://blogs.technet.com/fdcc/archive/2009/09/15/source-code-for-new-and-updated-local-group-policy-utilities.aspx
• Webcast:  [getting this fixed]

Apply_LGPO_Delta -- automates custom changes to local policy and security settings on the Windows computer you run the utility on.

• Latest version (2.00) [updated 2009-09-15]:  http://blogs.technet.com/fdcc/archive/2009/09/15/new-and-updated-local-group-policy-utilities.aspx
• Latest published source code [updated 2009-09-15]:  http://blogs.technet.com/fdcc/archive/2009/09/15/source-code-for-new-and-updated-local-group-policy-utilities.aspx
• Webcast:  http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/InviteOnly.aspx?EventID=18-D1-D2-C5-1F-3A-9E-F9-B1-26-DC-17-61-15-4E-41 

ImportRegPol -- reads content from a registry policy (registry.pol) file, and imports it into local policy on the current computer, and/or writes its content to a log file in a format that Apply_LGPO_Delta can use.

• Initial version (1.00) [2009-09-15]:  http://blogs.technet.com/fdcc/archive/2009/09/15/new-and-updated-local-group-policy-utilities.aspx
• Published source code [2009-09-15]:  http://blogs.technet.com/fdcc/archive/2009/09/15/source-code-for-new-and-updated-local-group-policy-utilities.aspx