Tag Archives: Group Policy

Disable Office User Interface Elements

Posted on August 12, 2008 by Aaron Parker

Group Policy allows you to disable certain UI elements within Office applications, which you might want to do in the case of the Information Rights Management feature built into Office 2003 and 2007. I’m picking on IRM in this post … Continue reading →

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Getting Rid Of That Unblock Button

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Aaron Parker

I actually don’t mind UAC at all, but this button is really annoying: You will usually see this on the properties of files you have downloaded from the Internet but it also manifests itself in other file copies too, such … Continue reading →

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Planning and Deploying Group Policy? This Is For You

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Aaron Parker

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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New Group Policy White Papers Up For Grabs

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Aaron Parker

Here’s a couple of new Group Policy white papers released to the Microsoft Download Centre. They detail some great Group Policy additions coming with Windows Server 2008 and the Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack. The Advanced Group Policy Management tool came … Continue reading →

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Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Aaron Parker

Here’s an interesting tool that Microsoft have just released – the Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer: The Microsoft Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer (GPDBPA) for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 is designed to help you identify Group … Continue reading →

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