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In the past few weeks there has been a lot of post about the new Enterprise features coming with the new Edge Chromium version of the browser. Unfortunately the main feature that enterprises were waiting for did not work... until today. One of the k...
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For all of its issues, Internet Explorer has been the most prolific Group Policy enabled applications ever released. Even the recent versions of Edge with Windows 10 still does not hold up to the old versions of IE when it comes to sheer number of su...
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Microsoft has released the latest security template for Windows version (Windows 10 and Windows Server) 1903. These templates contain updated guidance and recommendations as to what setting should or should not be configured to your domain joined PC....
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Microsoft has just released a new rollout KB hotfix for Windows 10 on the 1st April (not joking). What is notable about this update is there is a couple of Group Policy settings that have been fixed and added. First one is only minor and they have r...
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After its initial release and then withdrawal of Windows 10 1809 update due to a number of potential data loss issues, Microsoft has now again released the OS to wide scale deployment. As a such a number of other release have now come from Microsoft,...
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Microsoft just documented the new policy setting for Microsoft Edge. These settings can be configured via both MDM and Group Policy. To get use the policy settings you need to be running at least Windows 10 Preview build 17718. Then you can then inst...
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Back in May 2018 Microsoft released the [Windows 1803 ADMX/ADML file pack](
Just a quick note that Microsoft has recently release a hot fix KB4338819 that fixes and issue with the Mitigation option. This is a Windows Defender setting that can be found under the Administrative Templates>Computers>System>Mitigation Options set...
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If you have followed this blog you would know that the Remote Server Admin Tools are an essential set of tools for managed Group Policy, Active Directory and almost all other core components of Windows Server. These tools can be installed on demand i...
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Matt Call from Microsoft has just blog the different with describes the impact of no longer being able to customise the Windows Start menu using the Default Users Profile. In case you did not know you could previously set a users start menu by baking...
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The latest version of the Windows 10 1803 security templates have been released to the public. These are the new Microsoft recommend guidance for securing Windows in an organisation. These settings are normally tighter than the Out of the Box setting...
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Until recently it was not possible to set the default domain password length via GPMC to anything longer that 14 characters (see below). This limit was enforced via the UI but it was possible to set a password value longer manually if the user chose...
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