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Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2
In my previous article In this article [Best Practice:Active Directory Structure Guidelines — Part 1](
Group Policy Setting of the Week 36 — Turn off Windows Start-up Sound
This weeks group policy setting on the week is one that most IT administrators will probably want to implement. Now for personal use the Windows logon sound is quite nice however when you have an office packed with computers it can sound like a symph...
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Active Directory Structure Guidelines – Part 1
I have been doing Active Directory and Group Policy work for a while now and I have developed my own set of rules that I try to use where ever possible. So below I have written down all my rules in no particular order for you to go over and use for y...
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Book Review: Least Privilege Security for Windows 7,Vista and XP
I was recently approached to do a book review on "[Least Privilege Security for Windows 7,Vista and XP by Russell Smith](
How to manage Windows Firewall settings using Group Policy
In this article I am going to talk about how you can use Group Policy to control the firewall that comes out of the box with Windows but first I want to give you a bit of history of the evolution of host based firewall in Windows. [Firewalls](
Group Policy Setting of the Week 35 — Display information about previous logons during user logon
This weeks setting is one that has just been mentioned in the [AD Blogs Friday mail sack](
How to use Group Policy to allow the users to chose any screensaver except (None)
During Kevin Sullivan [Group Policy session at TechEd 2010](
The complete list of Group Policy Hotfix’s in Windows 7/2008 R2 Service Pack 1
[]()The beta of [Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 beta](
How to use Group Policy to Allow or Block URL’s
This is another article I have written that address's the [commonly](
Jeremy Moskowitz (Group Policy MVP) interview by Matt Hester
Jeremy Moskowitz (fellow Group Policy MVP) has just appeared in an interview with Matt Hester on [Bytes by TechNet web site](
Group Policy Setting of the Week 34 — Do not allow Windows Media Center to run
The setting of the week this week prevents users from running Windows Media Center on Vista or above versions. Unlike Windows XP which had its own dedicated version of Media Center, Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions and Windows 7 Business, Enter...
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