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…

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…

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…

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…

This weeks setting of the week is second is another one of the new Windows 7 offline file settings called “Configure Background Sync” which can be found under Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Networks > Offline Files.  This setting allows you to configured the new Windows 7 feature that background sync’s offline file when a computer is…

This weeks setting is a new configuration setting in Offline Files called “Exclude files form being cached”. This setting can be used by IT administrators to block any un-wanted file types from being made available for offline use. You can find this setting under Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Network > Office Files and it will only…

Back to another profile setting this week and this one can save any organisation using Windows Vista or greater a lot of time if you manual provision your accounts. The setting is called “Set roaming profile path for all users logging onto this computer” and it configures the users roaming profile path that is normally configured on a per account…

This weeks setting is one that you would use if you are in an environment that you want a very high level of security (e.g. Kiosk computers). The “Allow file download” option is used to prevent the downloading of files via Internet Explorer. This setting does not prevent the browser form downloading files such as images to display in the…