Sorry that this weeks setting of the week was a little late however as you can see I have been a little busy. This weeks setting is called “Remote Properties from the Computer icon context menu” and can be found under User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Desktop. This setting might seem a little mundane compared some other…

There is currently a Cross Site Scripting issue with SharePoint 3.0 and 2007 which could allow someone to maliciously run an arbitrary script that could allow elevation of privilege in the SharePoint site. There is currently no hotfix out for this issues  however you can mitigate this issue by enabling the XSS Filter in Internet Explorer 8. Unfortunately this is…

Just a single new hot fix has come out this week that affects group policy… 981704 The file name of an ADM file is displayed incorrectly in the GPMC report in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008 This hotfix resolves a problem with a GPO report in the Group Policy Management Console showing as “Extra Registry Settings” if you…

I have decided to start posting about some specific group policy related KB’s that I have found useful in my time. I will make these posting whenever I come across them so they I will only post them on a semi regular basis. This KB Focus is KB274274 which talks about a problem you will encounter if you are trying…

My second daughter (Charlotte Joanne Burchill) was born today at 8lb7o… and Mum and Bub are doing well… so you’ll excuse me if I don’t do as many post over the next few weeks.

This weeks setting is a little bit different as this is the first time that I have selected a non-managed policy setting, but I have chosen this one as it is probably a setting that will be used in a lot of organisations as they start to rollout Exchange 2010. This setting is called “Enable RPC Encryption” and it is…

Just found out about a few more hot fixes that Microsoft recently released for Group Policy. KB979621 A removable storage device is disabled when you enable a Group Policy to deny write access or to deny read access to the device on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 Fixes an issues with removable storage devices…

Last week Microsoft released a few new Group Policy hot fixes for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, below is a link to each KB article and my own short description hotfix. KB981054 The Group Policy preference settings for the “Terminal Session” item-level targeting item are not applied in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2.” This is…