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An old colleague of mine, Alan Burchill, has started a new blog dedicated to Group Policy – Group Policy Center. He’s started to get some great content up there and I expect much more to come. Alan has an excellent set of posts covering Group Policy Setting of the Week, although at that rate I calculate that it’s [...]
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Here’s a great document from the Microsoft writing team on planning and deploying Group Policy for Windows Server 2008. Many of the details in this document do apply to Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 Server as well. This document is the place to start for anyone dealing with Group Policy, no matter what your [...]
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If you are working with PolicyMaker Registry Extension, or any of the other PolicyMaker products, you will find the Microsoft Management Console will crash when you select the User Settings / Registry node when editing the Group Policy on machine that also has Internet Explorer 7 installed. If you look at the crash details you [...]
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The ADM/ADMX templates have been updated and include the fix for the Outlook template. See the download link below to update your templates. When adding the Outlook 2007 ADM template file, OUTLK12.ADM, to a Group Policy object, you may encounter the following error displayed when you view a settings report in the GPMC: The .adm [...]
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If you are looking at deploying Office 2007 via Group Policy you may have noticed that Microsoft have changed the game. Office 2007 is no longer deployed using transform files; it now uses Windows Installer patches (.MSP) or CONFIG.XML to customise the Office installation. When you deploy any of the Office 2007 applications, you can [...]
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If you are starting to deploy Windows Vista you may have noticed that any user who has administrative access to their workstation will not receive mapped drives or printers. This is due to the new privilege model introduced in Windows Vista with User Account Control. Microsoft has a complete explanation of why this behaviour with [...]
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Microsoft have pulled the PolicyMaker Regsitry Extension download. This product is part of what is now known as Group Policy Preferences, a new feature of Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2. If you are still writing custom ADM templates for your application deployments and haven’t heard of DesktopStandard PolicyMaker Registry Extension, then it’s definitely something [...]
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Here’s an interesting new feature of Windows Vista that will be a help to shared computing environments such as public libraries or those still inflicted with Windows NT 4.0 domains – Multiple Local Group Policy. In environments where Windows is installed and not connected to a domain, locking down the user interface with Group Policy [...]
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