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Category Archives: Group Policy

Group Policy Scripts can fail due to UAC

02-Apr-07

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 Group [...]

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Why Are You Still Writing ADM Templates?

25-Mar-07

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.
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 you should be looking at. [...]

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Windows Vista 101: Multiple Local Group Policy

08-Oct-06

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 has [...]

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