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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 3:39 PM

Configuring a Power Plan with Group Policy Preferences (by Alan Burchill)

Alan and I had a great time presenting about Group Policy Preferences at TechEd Australia a few weeks ago. He did a quick demo in our session about configuring Power Schemes; here's the breakdown in more detail. He captures the idea of targeting power
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Thursday, August 06, 2009 6:10 PM

Cool Articles: Group Policy Modeling, Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 functionality

I just read a couple of great articles written in the past couple months about Group Policy. Ever wondered which policy is going to 'win' on a client with overlapping settings from different GPOs? Want to know more about Starter GPO's or Preferences?
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:23 PM

Security Filtering, WMI Filtering, and Item-level Targeting in Group Policy Preferences

Hi, I’m Florian, one of the Group Policy MVPs . You may know us MVPs from conferences, seminars, books, Newsgroups and Forums where we voluntarily provide help and guidance to Group Policy and its associated products. Today, I’d like to write about a
Posted by GPTeam | 5 Comments
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:52 PM

GP Preferences: Add a new printer, set as default

You might know GP Preferences is great for mapping drives , pushing out shortcuts, and adding new folders. But did you know that you can use GP Preferences to add a printer and set it as default? Check it out: Here’s the Devices and Printers inventory
Posted by GPTeam | 10 Comments
Friday, June 19, 2009 4:59 PM

How do I migrate PolicyMaker Items to Group Policy Preference Items?

PolicyMaker customers have been waiting for an easy way to migrate their PolicyMaker settings over to Group Policy Preference settings. The solution is finally here!! We have developed a commandline tool that you can run against your environment to find
Posted by GPTeam | 4 Comments
Wednesday, May 13, 2009 5:10 PM

Environment Variables in GP Preferences

There was a great question in the blog comments, I’m going to post the answer up here because I think the answer is cool. Can a location (UNC) be set using both an environmental variable and a static entry? I'll explain by example.  Let's say that
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:08 AM

Microsoft Management Summit 2009

I just got back from another great MMS in Las Vegas and I’d like to thank everyone who stopped by the booth, attended the Group Policy-related sessions, and asked great questions about Group Policy and AGPM (thanks to Chris for Tweeting about it!). I’m
Posted by GPTeam | 5 Comments
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
Friday, April 17, 2009 11:32 AM

Check a setting in all GPO's continued (scripts, firewall, GP Preferences and more)

I mentioned this in the last post, here are some more examples. To download the script, check the 'Attachments' link by clicking on this post's title and then scrolling to the bottom. Quick refresher: This script’s usage is as follows: SearchGPOsForSetting.ps1
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Attachment(s): SearchGPOsForSetting.ps1
Friday, March 27, 2009 4:39 PM

Group Policy Preferences Not Applying on Some Clients: Client-Side Extension, XMLLite

Group Policy Preferences quick tip: To ensure that preferences are applied to clients, make sure that clients have the CSEs and XMLLite installed If you’re like us, you’re seriously excited about Group Policy Preferences. You’re excited because you can’t
Posted by GPTeam | 5 Comments
Friday, February 20, 2009 10:59 AM

Group Policy Preferences: Deploy Printer Settings

We received an email from Daniel today. He’s done a great blog post on how to use Group Policy Preferences to deploy printer settings to workstations. I'm sure Lilia is with me on this though: we can think of plenty more reasons than just one to use GP
Posted by GPTeam | 3 Comments
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 8:09 PM

GP Preferences Will Reduce Logon Scripts : Mapping Drives

Too often, I ask if people are familiar with GP Preferences and get a blank stare. I will say this over and over again: GP Preferences will dramatically reduce your logon scripts GP Preferences has clean, easy-to-use reporting and UI Lots of things get
Posted by GPTeam | 15 Comments
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:20 PM

Troubleshooting: Quick Fixes

Everyone has their own troubleshooting quick checks; here are some that you may know well, and others you haven’t tried yet. Logon/Logoff Some policies applied only after the second logon, not after the first logon. What’s the deal? Anything that is set
Posted by GPTeam | 4 Comments
Monday, October 20, 2008 2:23 PM

Red / Green Underlining continued: Using Preferences to set IE settings like preference, or like policy

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.
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Monday, October 13, 2008 5:38 PM

Red / Green: GP Preferences doesn’t work even though the policy applied and after gpupdate \force

I set a Preference setting, but it didn’t work. The answer? Probably F5-F6-F7-F8. GP Preferences has a ton of compelling reasons to use it; the functionality allows admins to configure settings that are difficult to impossible to achieve through policy
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