Group Policy Preferences have been out for about 3 years now and so there have been a number web posts about what they are and how they are implemented. So I have created a list of links to other articles that from the Group Policy Team Blog and ohte...
Continue Reading →Just stumbled across this Microsoft KB that seem like a fairly common problem that may affect anyone who tries to apply a desktop wallpaper to a Windows 7 computer via Group Policy. Description: > In an Active Directory domain network environment, y...
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In part 2 of how to use Group Policy to configure a users home page I will be show you how to use Group Policy Preferences to configure a users home page. There really isn't a right way you can set the users home pages setting it is really up to your...
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**UPDATE: Since I published this article Microsoft published an new[MSDN article ](
Aamer Shedam from Microsoft's [Ask the Performance Team](
In case you had not already heard Microsoft have had to release an update for all European users to prompt display a ballot screen about what version of browser they want to use (see below). This is one of the actions Microsoft had to do to comply wi...
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One of the common task that Group Policy administrators need to do is download and install the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) on their computer to allow them to make changes to Group Policy. This tool is by default not installed on Windows Se...
Continue Reading →Recently, the SPECOPS Software roadshow **_"Changes, Challenges and Choices When rolling out Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7"_** made its way to the Microsoft Alpharetta office in the US. The featured speaker was Jeremy Moskowitz of GPanswers.co...
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This setting is another profile related setting however I think the focus is warranted as so many organisations use roaming profiles. This setting is called "Prevent Roaming Profile changes from propagating to the server" and can be found under Compu...
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One of the most common setting that Group Policy is used for it so configure browser home pages settings. There are a number of ways that this can be done in Part 1 i am going to go thought the changing the Home Page setting using a native Group Poli...
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This week I have decided to chose "Add the Administrator security group to roaming users profiles" as the setting of the week. This setting can be found under "Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > User Profiles" and...
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In my previous article "[How to use Group Policy to make USB drives read only on Windows XP](