Category Archives: Group Policy

New Group Policy Blog – Group Policy Center

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 … Continue reading

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Planning and Deploying Group Policy? This Is For You

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 … Continue reading

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PolicyMaker and Internet Explorer 7

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 … Continue reading

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Error with OUTLK12.ADM

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 … Continue reading

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Office 2007 Deployment via Group Policy

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 … Continue reading

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