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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:03 PM

Passwords in Group Policy Preferences (updated)

Have you ever wanted to configure a preference item to include a specific user name and password? You can do so in several types of preference items, but you should first consider the security ramifications of embedding a user name and password in a preference
Posted by GPTeam | 4 Comments
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:28 AM

Do I need to update my server to support new policies? When do I need to separate policies?

I just blogged about this very question over on my blog . Essentially the question we hear a lot is do I need to update Schema/Active Directory/Servers/functional modes etc to support a new client OS version. I wont revisit that Sometimes theres a need
Posted by GPTeam | 4 Comments
Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:27 AM

Restoring Default Domain Policies and SYSVOL to their defaults

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.
Posted by GPTeam | 1 Comments
Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:20 PM

PolicyMaker Preferences Migration tool

To keep you in the loop, many of you have asked whether we intend to provide support for PolicyMaker Preferences and migrate to Windows Server 2008's Group Policy Preferences. I can confirm we are currently testing a tool that will be able to perform
Posted by GPTeam | 11 Comments
Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:59 PM

Drive Mappings in Logon Scripts not working correctly

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 the
Posted by GPTeam | 1 Comments
Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:39 AM

Advanced Group Policy Management 3.0 RTM's!

As noted on the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) blog announcing the latest MDOP release, AGPM 3.0 has RTM'd. For those customers licensed for MDOP, this means you'll have it in your hands around the first week of October 2008 via the MVLS site
Posted by GPTeam | 3 Comments
Monday, August 04, 2008 7:58 PM

Passwords in Group Policy Preferences

Have you ever wanted to configure a preference item to include a specific user name and password? You can do so in several types of preference items, but you should first consider the security ramifications of embedding a user name and password in a preference
Posted by GPTeam | 4 Comments
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:26 AM

Extending Group Policy Preferences

The Group Policy preference extension is designed to allow developers to extend the Application preference item. For those applications that are currently unsupported by Group Policy preferences, you can create your own property sheet extension for the
Posted by GPTeam | 0 Comments
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:36 PM

Announcing Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista SP1

Now available, Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) is the collection of Windows Server management tools provided to enable IT professionals to manage their Windows Server infrastructure from their computers running Windows Vista with Service Pack
Posted by GPTeam | 3 Comments
Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:20 PM

Manage your existing Windows systems with Group Policy Preference client side extensions.

These are some serious toys delivering a large punch of power from the suite formerly known as PolicyMaker. You don't need to have Windows Server 2008 or Vista SP1 to use the tools -- now called Group Policy preferences. They include more than 20 new
Posted by GPTeam | 4 Comments
 
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