Posted in Tutorials

How to enable IE Quirks Mode with Group Policy

If you are looking at moving to Windows 7 or you are looking upgrading IE6 in your organisation you have probably discovered that a lot of your intranet web sites don’t work properly. Well apparently  80% of IE app compatibility issues are cause by website that do not have the <!DOCTYPE> header as the with IE8 (See below). This problem…

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Get-GPOBackup

Jeffery Hicks (PowerShell MVP) has just recently written a power shell command call Get-GPOBackup to address and issues with managing GPO backups. The GroupPolicy module from Microsoft offers a great deal of functionality from a command line. In terms of regular maintenance or administration it is pretty hard to beat, especially if you have 100s or 1000s of GPOs. When…

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TechEd Video: Optimizing Group Policy in Virtual Desktop (VDI) Environments

Speaker: Darren Mar-Elia Source: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WCL309

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Posted in Site News

Group Policy App for Windows Phone

I am very pleased to announce that my Group Policy App for Windows Phone is now on the Windows Phone Marketplace. This app pulls in all the RSS feeds from this site and many other Group Policy related web sites. It is also uses twitter to show you all the tweets with the #grouppolicy tag and the all the tweets…

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TechEd Video: Solving Common IT Pro Pain Points with the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP)

Speaker: Jennelle Crothers Source: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WCL311

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TechEd Video: Security Configurations Simplified with the Microsoft Security Compliance Manager

Speakers: Tom Cloward and Jeff Sigman Source http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WSV325

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TechEd Video: Advanced Troubleshooting with Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP)

Speaker: Jeff Hicks Source: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WCL303

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TechEd Video: Manage Group Policy with Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) 4.0

Speaker: Jeremy Moskowitz Source http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WCL308

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