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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
Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:54 PM

SYSVOL migration from File Replication Services (FRS) to Distributed File System Replication (DFSR)

It’s come to my attention (in a blunt object kind of way) that you’ve been waiting to migrate from Windows XP to Windows 7, bypassing Windows Vista. In case you’ve done the same with your servers, you’ve got some fun work coming up (but lots of cool features,
Posted by GPTeam | 2 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, March 13, 2009 4:19 PM

Search GPO : How to find a Group Policy Object

It’s interesting what you can discover when you right-click on something. For example, in the Group Policy Management Console (the GPMC) you can right-click on a domain and select “Search”, and a this amazing tool presents itself. This handy search tool
Posted by GPTeam | 1 Comments
Wednesday, March 04, 2009 4:56 PM

Group Policy Troubleshooting – helpful Event log categories

As many of you know Group Policy troubleshooting can be a bit of a challenge. If you have not made use of the Group Policy operational logs that were introduced in Windows Vista, you are missing out on an extremely handy troubleshooting tool. On any Vista
Posted by GPTeam | 2 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, 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
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 27, 2008 1:37 PM

AGPM 3.0 doesnt preserve all the Deny ACEs

We had a great customer question today on AGPM 3.0 that would probably interest quite a few of you using AGPM. "...A customer imports some GPOs [into AGPM] in order to change control them. Some of the GPOs have Deny permission for particular users’ that
Posted by GPTeam | 2 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
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:43 PM

Wunderbar! Perfetto! Maravilloso! Prachtig!

Molto faboloso! As of this morning, the Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) pack is available for download in the following languages, in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Language Code X86 X64 Chinese - Hong-Kong zh-HK Chinese - Hong Kong
Posted by GPTeam | 3 Comments
Friday, February 08, 2008 2:46 PM

Group Policy Forum up on TechNet for Windows Server 2008/Vista topics

There's a cool new forum on TechNet for Windows Server 2008/Vista Group Policy topics: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=2023&SiteID=17 There has already been some discussion, check it out!
Posted by GPTeam | 1 Comments
 
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