Rich has just posted Part 2 of the in depth look at at loopback group policy processing has just been posted. Check it out at CB5 Blog | Loopback Policy Processing Debug Series – Merge Mode

Ever wanted to know how loopback group policy really worked. Well Rich Crandall on the CB5 Blog has just done a the first post in a three part series talking about how loopback policy is applied. Check it out at CB5 Blog | Loopback Policy Processing Debug Series – Normal Mode

This week I have selected the Group Policy preference “Files” setting which can be found under either Users or Computers > Preferences > Windows Settings > Files. I commonly see the file update option used where a licence file or a single .exe application needs to be updated on all the computers in an organisation. Here a central copy of…

Permalink Fix Please go to https://www.grouppolicy.biz/2010/02/how-to-use-group-policy-to-make-adobe-reader-work-in-64bit-windows

Leo Davidson recently posted a fix for Adobe Reader integration on 64bit Windows. His fix resolves the thumbnail and file preview feature when you install Adobe Reader (which is still only available in 32bit) in 64bit Windows which Adobe have not seemed to work out for over 3 years now. On his site he has tool that you can download to manually apply…

The Ask the Performance Team has published a WMI Code Creator tool that allows queries your local WMI repository on your computer. This too can be useful if you want to find the WMI values to use with a WQL query filter for your Group Policy Objects (GPO). The tool itself does not actually create a WQL query for WMI…

This weeks setting of the week is a double header but they are really simple but so commonly used that they really have to be mentioned. The first setting is found under User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalization > Prevent changing desktop background. As the name suggest this setting prevents users from changing the…

Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) allows organisation to implement change control and versioning to their Active Directory Group Policies. This allows multiple people to edit Group Policy Object (GPO) with their changes going live the instant the change is made. Any changes to a GPO needs to be check-in, deployed then approved before ever making it to production. This product…