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Planning and Deploying Group Policy? This Is For You

19-Feb-08

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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PolicyMaker and Internet Explorer 7

17-Apr-07

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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Error with OUTLK12.ADM

17-Apr-07

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 file “\\company.local\SysVol\clariti.internal\Policies\{C08857CE-A103-456A-8D3D-0A4F869B8C4A}\Adm\outlk12.adm” [...]

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Office 2007 Deployment via Group Policy

12-Apr-07

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 add [...]

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