One of the changes with Windows 8 and Group Policy was that the Internet Explorer Maintenance section of GPMC was removed from under Windows Settings (see Interesting Change to Group Policy in Server 2012/Windows 8). However people have been noticing that the same Internet Explorer Maintenance option is removed from GPMC when they now install IE 10 on Windows 7…

Microsoft has recently released some new Administrative Templates that allow you to configure their newest software on down level Operating Systems. The Internet Explore 10 ADM files are useful if you want to edit Internet Explorer Administrative Settings from a computer that is still running Windows XP or Server 2003. Don’t be confused however as this does not mean you…

If you are like me and are forever forgetting where exactly a group policy setting is location or what it was exactly called then you probably have frequented the Group Policy Search Engine (previous at gps.cloudapp.net). However this web site no longer exists but thankfully it has move to http://gpsearch.azurewebsites.net/. If you have never used this web site before you…

Microsoft has just release the Office 2013 ADMX/ADML file that allow you to manage the program using Group Policy. You might note that the only the ADMX/ADML (not ADM) files are released for this version of the Office as the program is no longer supported on Windows XP. Get the ADMX/ADML from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=35554\ If you are after the settings spread…

If you have used Adobe Reader in your organisation you are probably controlling it some what using group policy preferences as I blogged here or via a third party software tools such as PolicPak.  Thankfully Adobe has just announced that the new version of Adobe Reader XI will have Group Policy Template support as well as support for App-V and Citrix XenApp. GPO…

The complete reference guild to all the new Windows 8 group policy setting has now been published. A quick search through this spread sheet show there are 175 new administrative settings (27 user and 138 computer) and 4 security settings specific to Windows 8 and 2012. This spread sheet also has a few new columns with more information on each…

If you downloaded and installed Windows Server 2012 last week and your are also running the Windows 8 RTM you may have realised that the Remote Server Administrator Tools for Windows 8 RTM were not released yet. The RSAT tools are of course the all the admin tools you require to manage you Windows Server 2012 features remotely therefore having…

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…