I have seen an number of posts form IT Administrators on the Microsoft Group Policy forums asking how prevent their users from connecting to a wireless network. Maybe it is because they have an open WIFI network on the floor above that users keep con...
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There is currently a security advisory out about a Zero Day vulnerability in Internet Explore 6 & 7 on Windows XP and Vista. While there is no patch out for this issues so far you can mitigate the security a number ways using Group Policy. Below I ha...
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One of the features in Windows 7 that is sadly lacking are any Group Policies that can be used to configure an IT administrator to configure is the [Libraries feature](
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 compu...
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Microsoft have just released a hotfix ([KB980959](
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 set...
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As you know [Group Policy Preferences](
One of the most annoying things about Adobe Reader is that it is in need for constant updating to newer version due to security issues. While this is true for most software packages whenever you install an Adobe Reader update it also restores the des...
Continue Reading →Tom Archer just wrote a blog post about four new sample C# programs that interface with the Group Policy Management Console to perform general group policy tasks in Active Directory. These are some very usefull sample if you are looking at writing yo...
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Windows has a cool feature that allows you to tell if your computer has Internet connectivity when you are connected to a network (see image below). This feature is called Network Connectivity Status Indicator (NCSI) it uses a combination of DNS and/...
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Another one...? yes... Another roaming profiles group policy for this weeks setting of the week. But this is a really super cool policy I found while reading the "[What's New in Folder Redirection and User Profiles](