One of the great new feature with Group Policy Preferences is the ability to map printers based on a various number of criteria such as group membership, AD Site or even IP Address range to name a few. This allows for some powerful senarios such as b...
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The setting of the week this time highlights the one and ONLY power management policy that has been around since Windows 2000. The "Prompt for password on resume from hibernate / suspend" can be found under User Configuration > Administrative Templat...
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Logon Scripts!!! I hear you yelling at me about why I am doing a tutorial about logon scripts when Group Policy Preferences is supposed to allow me to stop using my logon scripts. Well in a utopian world there would be no logon scripts to maintain ho...
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One problem I see all the time is IT administrator never being able to control who is a local administrator of any particular computer. The problem is that when you give someone local admin access to a computer (because they legitimately need it) you...
Continue Reading →Jan Egil's has just written a good blog post explaining how to use Power Shell with Group Policy Preferences to easily setup multiple printer connections. If you have ever had to make printer connections with Group Policy Preferences you will know th...
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This weeks group policy setting of the week is about the "Remove Default Programs link from the Start menu" option that can be found under User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. The start menu entry "Defaul...
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Ever wondered why the behaviour of Group Policy Preferences Power Plan never worked the way you expected? Well [Ned Pyle](
Just added a video section that has links to numerous online videos relating to group policy. To view it click on "Videos" in the navigation bar or just follow this link
Microsoft just released two new hot fixes for the Group Policy Preferences (GPP) client-side extensions and the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). **Group Policy preferences client-side extension hotfix rollup for Windows Vista** This hotfix res...
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