I used to think that it was not possible to set IP address information via Group Policy however I did some checking this week and was pleased to find that there was a way to configure your computers DNS Server addresses. Unfortunately this setting only applies to Windows XP, however lots of people still use XP so it is still…

Not strictly a Group Policy video but it does relate heavy to my Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection (a.k.a. User State Virtualization) blog post. Anjli is a program manager on the Windows team.  Adam Bomb  met with her recently to talk about offline folders and folder redirection in Windows. She talked about how the technologies work, when they should be…

One of the problem that face IT Administrators today is keeping up with all the security updates you need to deploy to your computers to keep them secure. This is even more exacerbated by the very large number of security updates associate with running multiple browsers. Also having multiple browsers on network could mean that you have totally patched one…

Microsoft have just released the reference spreadsheet that outline all the new and removed Group Policy settings. The spreadsheet also has a Non-Versioned section that shows all the is setting that write directly to the registry (a.k.a. Non-Managed). This is a really good sign that Microsoft Office 2010  is very close to RTM. You can download the spreadsheet for your…

This week is another setting that controls a new offline files settings that was introduced in Windows 7 and this setting seems to be nothing short of AMAZING!!! This setting is used to “Enabled Transparent Caching” and can be found under Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Networks > Offline Files. Unfortunately I have not had a chance…

If you have ever configured you Internet Explorer setting via the “Internet Explorer Maintenance” group policy setting you might be wondering however to remove these setting now you found a few easier ways to do the same thing. Well its not all that  obvious but if you go to User Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings  you can then right…

Microsoft have now started to release definition updates to Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) via WSUS. This now allows any corporate that is running WSUS to centrally deploy pattern updated from a single server. While most corporation probably will not have MSE deployed in their environment it might still be worth while to enable to ensure any fringe cases of computers…

BeyondTrust has just come out with a white paper entitled “90% of Critical Microsoft Windows 7 Vulnerabilities are Mitigated by Eliminating Admin Rights”. This paper has some very interesting statistics around the percentages of security issues that are mitigate if a users is not running as administrator. • 90% of Critical Windows 7 vulnerabilities reported to date • 100% of…