Microsoft Management Summit 2009

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subtlecoolness — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:14:53 GMT

Remember those jerks in your last session at MMS that claimed to have over 500 GPOs in their environment? I'm one of them. I just checked our sysvol\policies folder ... there 2887 GPO folders in there! Out of control.

Yesterday I used GP Preferences to make sure Symantec AntiVirus on our clients is managed by the right server. I used the File node to add a new file to the machine; the source file was a GRC.DAT file on the SAV server, and the destination was a folder in %CommonAppDataDir% on the client.

This GPO will replace one that has been using a startup script to copy the file from the server to the client.

re: Microsoft Management Summit 2009

GPTeam — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:03:48 GMT

Hey SubtleCoolness -

2887 GPOs is impressive! How many different people are managing Group Policy? I seem to remember you mentioning that your organization also uses AGPM, remember that in 3.0 you can limit the number of backups to keep around so you're not taking up too much space with all of those GPOs.

Great example of Preferences, thanks for sharing it. Let me know if there's something you'd like to do with Preferences (or with GP in general) that you still have in a startup script.

- LiliaG

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singersr — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:15:21 GMT

Hi I use Global Policy Preferences to control the settings of Oracle Jinitiator.

I treat the %USERPROFILE%\.jinit\properties13122 file as an ini file.

Specifically I set the following properties

jarcache.directory = %AppDataDir%\Oracle Jar Cache

javaplugin.console = true

javaplugin.jre.params = -Xmx128m

As for your question about logon scripts we do a lot with Outlook profiles and signatures as well as setting the Office user details via log on script. As well as a few other bits and bobs.

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George R — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:11:02 GMT

Hi Lilia

I seen your BOF session at MMS on GPP (wow, a lot of acronyms there). I have one question, ok, maybe 2. Can you edit prefernces with XP or do you need Vista/2008? If so, how do you get them to display in XP?

I installed the XMLLite and the client extentions on an XPSP3 workstation but I don't see them in GPMC > %policy object% > edit. We don't have any Vista machines and I only have 1 Server 2008 box in one of about 3 environments I manage.

Thanks

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GPTeam — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:31:46 GMT

Good question, to manage GP Preferences, you have to run Vista SP1 (with the GPMC installed from RSAT) or Windwos Server 2008, at least.

There are power management and scheduled tasks updates to Preferences that you can only manage from Windows 7 client / Windows Server 2008 R2.

Check out the requirements for managing Preferences here:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731892.aspx