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• 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 if you are working in a high-security environment you should first consider the security ramifications Read More... Posted Monday, August 04, 2008 7:58 PM by GPTeam | 1 Comments

• Share your feedback on managing Windows Servers with the Group Policy Team!

  The Group Policy team at Microsoft would like to hear from you about how you currently manage your servers and server-based applications and how you’d like manage them in the future. Please take this anonymous online survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=9rTLNIcDd2kuU8addj0iUw_3d_3d Read More... Posted Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:08 AM by GPTeam | 1 Comments

• 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: Tools and Docs, Group Policy, Preferences, snap-in

• You will survive

  Now available: the Group Policy Documentation Survival Guide. Print it out, laminate it, tape it to your wall. You will survive. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=117638 Read More... Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 9:45 AM by GPTeam | 0 Comments

• 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:43 PM by GPTeam | 3 Comments Filed under: remote management, Remote Server Administration Tools, RSAT, snap-in, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008

• Now available to download: Administrative templates (ADMX) for Windows Server 2008

  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=116434 Administrative templates provide Group Policy setting information for the items that appear under Administrative Templates. Group Policy tools use Administrative template files to populate policy settings Read More... Posted Monday, April 14, 2008 6:50 PM by GPTeam | 0 Comments

• GP Preferences Local Group extension

  Just had a question come through about 'Restricted Groups'. One of the original extensions to GP, increadibly powerful and helpful to admins who need to have better control over local group memberships. There are some scenarios that 'Restricted Groups' Read More... Posted Friday, April 11, 2008 8:13 AM by GPTeam | 2 Comments

• FWLinks, LinkIDs--What the heck?!

  This post is not explicitly about Group Policy, but we thought you'd find it useful for our content and any other content you navigate and read on Microsoft.com. Have you ever encountered a Microsoft URL that looks like http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=63080? Read More... Posted Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:41 PM by GPTeam | 3 Comments

• Now available to download: Starter Group Policy objects

  Starter Group Policy objects (GPOs), introduced in Group Policy for Windows Server 2008, are collections of configured Administrative template (.admx) policy settings that you can use to create a live GPO. Each of the two packages in this download contains Read More... Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 6:11 PM by GPTeam | 0 Comments

• DesktopStandard Transition and Support Information

  In the last week, we have published a new dedicated page that covers DesktopStandard transition and support information: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/technologies/featured/gp/desktopstandard.mspx Why publish this page now? The DesktopStandard Read More... Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 3:34 PM by GPTeam | 0 Comments

• GPMC Removed From Vista SP1

  If you've upgraded your Vista client to SP1, you've found that installing Windows Vista SP1 removes GPMC; installing RSAT will put GPMC back on your client. You can install RSAT from the following locations: Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools Read More... Posted Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:52 PM by GPTeam | 3 Comments

• 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 Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:36 PM by GPTeam | 0 Comments Filed under: Group Policy, Preferences, Windows Vista, PolicyMaker

• 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 Read More... Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:20 PM by GPTeam | 3 Comments Filed under: Group Policy, Preferences, CSEs, PolicyMaker

• GP Policy vs. Preference vs. GP preferences

  Wow! What a confusing title. So, why did I use this? Your feedback tells us there is some confusion over our terminology for our new extension, Group Policy preferences. And I aim to clear up this confusion in this post. In the beginning of Group Policy Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:27 PM by GPTeam | 4 Comments

• What client computers need to recognize GP preference settings

  If you’ve been exploring Group Policy preferences using Windows Server 2008 or Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows Vista, you may be wondering what client computers require to recognize GP preference settings. After all, GP preference Read More... Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 1:29 PM by GPTeam | 1 Comments