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• 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:26 AM by GPTeam | 0 Comments Filed under: Group Policy, Preferences, snap-in, Tools and Docs

• New! Windows PowerShell Help on TechNet

  I know there's a lot of interest around Windows PowerShell. Here's some information you might be interested in as a Group Policy Administrator: A TechNet magazine article entitled, "Simplify Group Policy Administration with Windows PowerShell" by Thorbjörn Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:11 AM by GPTeam | 3 Comments Filed under: scripts, Tools and Docs, PowerShell

• Comparing ADMX files

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• Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer is now available for download

  Have you ever wished for a tool to help you identify Group Policy configuration problems…even those that, at first glance, might not seem to be related to Group Policy? How about a tool that can warn you if your Group Policy configuration might pose a Read More... Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:30 PM by GPTeam | 3 Comments Filed under: Windows XP, GPDBPA, Tools and Docs

• Customs Check-- Importing and Exporting WMI Filters

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• GP Technet home page receives facelift and new settings reference released!

  Hey Group Policy gurus, On Friday May 4th, the Group Policy team removed the curtain off the new Group Policy home page. The new home page, found at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/grouppolicy/default.aspx , has various Group Policy resources, Read More... Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 8:48 AM by GPTeam | 0 Comments Filed under: General Chat, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Tools and Docs

• GPLogView Source Project

  The Group Policy team is happy to it has released the source code for the GPLogView utility. The Group Policy Log view tool reports of all events for a particular policy processing cycle. It supports output formats of XML, HTML, and text and as the ability Read More... Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:24 AM by GPTeam | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, Tools and Docs

• Installing Office 2007 using Group Policy Software Installation

  Hey Group Policy Advocates! The Office team published a great “how to” on installing Office 2007 using Group Policy. The Office 2007 Resource Kit includes this documentation. You can view it online at the Microsoft TechNet site. Here’s a direct link http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/efd0ee45-9605-42d3-9798-3b698fff3e081033.mspx?mfr=true Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 9:15 AM by GPTeam | 1 Comments Filed under: General Chat, Tools and Docs

• New Group Policy posts to the Microsoft Download Center

  Great News. The Group Policy team has published new packages to the Download Center. ADMX Sample files ( http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=86092 ) Overview This download provides two sets of sample files, created in the ADM and ADMX formats. Example Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 21, 2007 8:26 AM by GPTeam | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, Tools and Docs

• Group Policy Log View tool posted

  We are on a bit of a roll! We have recently released the ADMX Migrator, the Windows Vista version of the Group Police Reference Spreadsheet and the ADM files for IE 7 and Powershell. Next up is a new tool for Windows Vista related to Group Policy events. Read More... Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 9:37 AM by GPTeam | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, Tools and Docs

• ADM Files available for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows and PowerShell for Windows

  Great News. The Group Policy team has published installation packages that distribute ADM files (below) for use with Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1. Administrative Templates for Internet Explorer 7 for Windows Download from: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=77998 Read More... Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 10:31 AM by GPTeam | 2 Comments Filed under: General Chat, Windows XP, Tools and Docs

• New Group Policy, Folder Redirection, and Profiles Documentation

  We released new documentation on Group Policy, Folder Redirection, and User Profiles. Also, we released a spreadsheet that includes Group Policy settings from Windows Vista Beta 2 and we are working on a RC1 version. Step-by-Step Guide to Managing Multiple Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 12, 2006 7:42 AM by GPTeam | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, Tools and Docs

• Windows Vista RC1, my TechEd Presentation and the Wiki...

  Windows Vista RC1 is done and it's looking pretty darn spiffy! I have to say that the progress in the past month or so - particularly in terms of performance - has been tremendous. Obviously I use Windows Vista on my regular machines at work but over Read More... Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 9:18 AM by GPTeam | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Vista, Tools and Docs

• Where's our stuff? The story of our invisible documents...

  We have a lot of great Group Policy docs out there - and many have been there for a loooonnnng time. But we can probably do a better job on the discoverability front! I've presented at TechEd for the last few years and like to take a pulse of whether Read More... Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:17 AM by GPTeam | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools and Docs