This weeks setting of the week is called “Set up a work schedule to limit the maximum network bandwidth used for BITS background transfers”… Phew…. This policy is used to configure the bandwidth allocation of BITS network transfers in your environment. This is obviously very handy setting manage your bandwidth if you are working in a bandwidth constrained environment such…

The group policy setting for the week this week is a new policy setting for Windows 7/2008 R2. This setting is called “Prevent changing mouse pointers” and can be found under User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalization. This setting is handy if you want to tightly control the user environment such as public access…

This weeks setting is a native policy for Windows Vista (or greater) called “Assign a default domain for logon”. As the name suggest it configured the default domain name when a user logs on to the computer. This is very handy in a multi domain environment or if you want to make sure that your newly built computer default to…

This weeks Group Policy setting should be used in environments where you still use a logon script. While I implore you stop using logon scripts (see http://www.ihatelogonscripts.com ) they are still out there for a majority of customers and as such still need to be properly managed. This setting is called “Maximum wait time for Group Policy scripts” but it…

In this weeks setting I look at a new Windows 7 setting that reverts the sort order of folders back to the old way it would sort files and folder the same as Windows 2000 (and earlier). This policy setting is called “Turn off numerical sorting in Windows Explorer and can be found under User Configuration > Policies > Administrative…

(Wow… I have been doing this for 6 months now… how time flies… ) This weeks setting of the week is another old one however it is very important for any environment that is still running Windows XP SOE. The “Do not allow Windows Messenger to be run” will prevent any user from running Windows Messenger that comes out of…

This weeks setting is called “Do not automatically make redirected folders available offline and can be found under User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > Folder Redirections and will work with Windows XP or later. As the name suggest this prevents any users redirected folder from being made available for offline use which is enabled by default….

The setting of the week is called “Remove the Action Center icon” and as the name says it  is used to remove the Action Center icon (a.k.a. Flag) from the system tray (see below). You might want to enable this setting if you are in a corporate environment and you centrally managed Backups, Firewall and Updates using other programs. However…