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TechEd 2012 Video: How to use Group Policy to Maximum Benefit in your Organisation

The following video is a recording of my second Group Policy session I presented during the TechEd NZ 2012. Feel free to check it out below… Want to get more out of your Group Policy in your organisation? See how you can unlock the power of Group Policy in your organisation and reduce administrative overhead. This session will give you…

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My Trip to New Zealand

This week I was lucky enough to visit  New Zealand to speak at TechEd New Zealand 2012. I would like to thank the delegates that attend my three session that all gave very good feedback to my sessions. These session were recorded so if you were not luck to catch me in person I will be sure to blog about…

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How manage Published (a.k.a Metro) Apps in Windows 8 using Group Policy

Windows 8 is coming REALLY SOON and of course one of the big new things to computer with that is the new Metro Packaged Apps that run in the start screen. However these apps are very different and do not install like traditional apps to a path or have a true “executable” file to launch the program. Of course enterprises…

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How to block installing SharePoint Server 2010 using Group Policy

SharePoint 2010 is quickly being coming a very popular web platforms for many organisation for collaborating and sharing information. In some cases it is almost to popular in some medium to large organisation with many SharePoint server farms popping up all over the place as each department or business unit see’s a need. As a quote from a Microsoft article…

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How to configuring IE Site Zone mapping using group policy without locking out the user

If you saw my tweet or Darren Mar-Elia blog post you may be glad to know that the legacy Internet Explorer Maintenance section of group policy has now been removed in Windows 8. Unfortunately this means that you can now longer natively configured the IE Site to Zone mapping using native group policy setting without still allowing the user to…

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How to “Set users home folder” via group policy in Windows 8

If your company is like most organisation i have come across you all users to have a home drive (typically H: ) that is give to the users that allows them to store private information that only they have access. Ever since the days of at least NT4 (or possibly earlier) administrators have had the option to configure their users…

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TechEd 2012 USA: Group Policy Reporting and Analysis with Windows PowerShell

This is another session from TechEd 2012 USA where Powershell tech legends Jeffery Hicks and MVP Jeremy Moskowitz. In this session they talk about all the challenges with managing lots of Group Policy object in your organisation and how you can troubleshoot using Powershell and other tools.

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TechEd 2012 USA: Best Practices for Designing and Consolidation Group Policy for Performance and Security (a.k.a Don’t blame Group Policy)

 In case you did not know TechEd 2012 USA was on last week. You can now start to view the session that were presented at the event at http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2012 however I will be posting the Group Policy specific session on this site over the next few days. This first session is by fellow Group Policy MVP Darren Mar-Elia and has…

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