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  • Wiki Page: Troubleshooting the Drive Maps Preference Extension in Group Policy: Replace Mode Only Maps the Drive Every Other Logon

    Table of Contents 1 - Define the Scenario 2 - Expected vs. Actual Results 3 - Why did this Happen? Interactions with other policy settings 4 - List alternative solutions 1 - Set NoBackgroundPolicy reg value to 0 (not recommended) 2 - Set Group Policy to always run synchronously 3 - Set the reconnect...
    on14 May 2013

  • Wiki Page: BitLocker GPOs in Windows 7

    Although there is a GPO "Store BitLocker Recovery information in Active Directory Domain Services", this will not work for Windows 7. For Windows 7, the policy should be configured under the Operating System Drive , Fixed Data Drive , and Removable Data Drive nodes . Also, some of...
    on12 May 2013

  • Wiki Page: Basic Group Policy Troubleshooting Overview

    This article describes the high-level steps to troubleshoot issues that you might have deploying a Group Policy to target machines or target users. For a rough understanding what Group Policy is and what it tries to do, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725828(WS.10).aspx Group...
    on12 May 2013

  • Wiki Page: Disabilitare Print Screen tramite Group Policy (it-IT)

    La funzionalità del tasto Print Screen può essere disabilitata distribuendo tramite GPP un file contenente una chiave di registro oppure uno script. Se si vuole distribuire la chiave di registro tramite uno script, creare un file .reg contenente le seguenti istruzioni: Windows Registry Editor...
    on9 May 2013

  • Wiki Page: Overview of Group Policy Client Service

    One of the major changes that came with Windows Vista and is now being leveraged in later operating systems is a new Group Policy Client service. Earlier operating systems used the WinLogon service to run Group Policy. There were no inherent problems with using WinLogon, but there are significant...
    on7 May 2013

  • Wiki Page: SCOM: Monitoring GPO changes using SCOM and PowerShell

    Monitoring GPO changes is quite complex discipline and for covering all aspects is available couple of tools or extra modules. Goal of this article is not detailed analysis of monitoring GPO changes but guidelines how to use recourses of SCOM and PowerShell to get basic overview of GPO monitoring....
    on27 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: Working with BGINFO-GPO - Publish Anything from a Text File

    We can publish any message any text from a text file through Microsoft BGINFO.EXE. Like you want to publish your password Policy on end user desktop. You need a batchfile and you can put it on logon script. ___________________bginfo.bat______________________ copy \\ contoso.com\NETLOGON...
    on25 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: Best Practices and Tricks to Protect Local Admin Passwords at a Large Scale

    How to secure local admin passwords, for instance on machines that are deployed using an image technology: First of all, 2 mandatory steps: - Make sure all applicable security fixes are being deployed - Have an inventory, updated on a regular basis, of the local admin accounts. First...
    on16 Apr 2013

  • Wiki Page: How to Set the Keyboard Layout through Group Policy (GPO)

    First we create an .ADM template for Group Policy. Here is example for setting the Keyboard Layout with two Languages, English and Farsi (you can add more Language). Here is Keyboard_Layout.adm sample: ************************************************************** CLASS USER CATEGORY...
    on24 Mar 2013

  • Wiki Page: Local Group Policy Editor

    In Microsoft Windows there is a very useful tool that helps you to quickly edit very important part in Windows behavior, it is name is Local Group Policy Editor . Generally some IT professionals like to make a fixed environment for the computers in the group , that tool will help them a lot. ...
    on21 Mar 2013

  • Wiki Page: Add One URL to Intranet Zone and Another URL to a Trusted Site Zone Through GPO-ADM

    Please note: if you want to manage Trusted/Intranet site through GPO, end users will be not able to add their sites. I have tested the below ADM and I have given a link for a VB Script. You can use one of them. . ;;;;Add one URL to Intranet Zone and Another Url To trusted Site Zone through...
    on5 Mar 2013

  • Wiki Page: Group Policy Preferences (GPP) (pt-BR)

    Table of Contents Introdução Conhecendo o recurso Novidades interessantes Links de Referência Edição Introdução Group Policies Preferences (GPP) é um novo recurso do Windows Server 2008. Ele facilita muito a administração de GPOs. Conhecendo o recurso Para acessar execute Start >...
    on5 Mar 2013

  • Wiki Page: Create Custom Libraries in Windows 7 and Deploy Them Through Group Policy

    Table of Contents Creating the custom library Prepare the custom library for deployment Deploy the custom library The library functionality was introduced within Windows 7 and provides users a single point of entry for specific data. For example, a company can have their data stored on several servers...
    on4 Feb 2013

  • Wiki Page: How to Configure an Open With Preference Group Policy Item

    Table of Contents Why use the Open With item in the group policy preferences? Action provides a choice of four actions Open With settings Credits Why use the Open With item in the group policy preferences? The Open With preference item allows you to create, configure, and delete an Open With...
    on4 Feb 2013

  • Wiki Page: How to Grant Users Rights to Manage Services (Start, Stop, Etc.)

    Table of Contents Method 1: (applies to local users) Method 2: (applies to domain users) Community Resources Method 1: (applies to local users) By default, users can't control system services they'll receive an "Error 5: Access is denied" error message. The following...
    on2 Feb 2013

  • Wiki Page: Using Group Policy Objects to Hide Specified Drives

    With Group Policy Objects in Windows, there is a "Hide these specified drives in My Computer" option that lets you hide specific drives. However, it may be necessary to hide only certain drive, but retain access to others. There are seven default options for restricting access to drives...
    on24 Oct 2012

  • Wiki Page: How to Apply a Group Policy Object to Individual Users or Computers

    < This article was originally posted at http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2010/05/how-to-apply-a-group-policy-object-to-individual-users-or-computer/ under a creative commons licence. > This article will show you how to properly apply a GPO to an individual user or computer. This method avoids...
    on24 Oct 2012

  • Wiki Page: Windows 7: How to Show a Custom Text Message Before Logon through Group Policy Preferences

    This function tested with Domain Controller 2008 and Windows 7 Client. To create do the following: 1- Open Group Policy Management console. 2- Right click on Default Domain Policy and click Edit . (That is just test, if you use practice, please create new GPO) 3- Go to...
    on17 Oct 2012

  • Wiki Page: How to Disable IPv6 through Group Policy

    In order to truly disable IPv6, you must disable it in the registry in the following KB929852 article: How to disable IP version 6 (IPv6) or its specific components in Windows 7, in Windows Vista, in Windows Server 2008 R2, and in Windows Server 2008 But, you can use Jeff Guillet's...
    on17 Oct 2012

  • Wiki Page: Use Group Policy to remotely install software in Windows Server 2008 and in Windows Server 2003

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816102
    on26 Sep 2012

  • Wiki Page: How to Prevent Authenticated Users from Joining Workstations to a Domain

    I asked myself what is benefit from this option "by default, Windows Server allows authenticated users to join 10 machine accounts to the domain". But I didn't get an answer. Table of Contents Administrator can control it with two ways 1- By Adsiedit 2- By Group Policy Administrator...
    on13 Sep 2012

  • Wiki Page: Aplicar GPOs no Mozilla Firefox (pt-BR)

    Para este artigo foi utilizado o Sistema Operacional - "SO" - Windows Server 2008 R2 e Mozilla Firefox v 3.6. Muitos utilizam GPOs para personalizar o Internet Explorer da empresa, como a home page, o proxy da empresa.Atualmente com o grande uso de outros navegadores essa personalização...
    on29 Aug 2012

  • Wiki Page: How to Force Proxy Settings Via Group Policy

    This article describes how to force proxy settings via Group Policy. Click Start – All programs – Administrative Tools – Group Policy Management. Create or Edit Group Policy Objects. Expand User configuration – Policies – Windows Settings – Internet Explorer...
    on24 Aug 2012

  • Wiki Page: How to Enable or Disable Remote Desktop via Group Policy Windows 2008

    Table of Contents 1- We can use Group Policy setting to (enable or disable) Remote Desktop 2- We can use Group Policy Preferences to (enable or disable) Remote Desktop 1- We can use Group Policy setting to (enable or disable) Remote Desktop Click Start – All programs – Administrative...
    on24 Aug 2012

  • Wiki Page: How to Change a Local Administrator Password with Group Policy

    We will use Group Policy Preferences to set password on local user account Click Start – All programs – Administrative Tools – Group Policy Management. Create or Edit Group Policy Objects. Expand Computer Configuration – Preferences – Control Panel Settings....
    on24 Aug 2012
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