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Group Policy Setting of the Week 32 – Prevent changing mouse pointers
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…
Group Policy Setting of the Week 29 – Assign a default domain for logon
This weeks setting is a native policy for Windows Vista (or greater) called “Assign a default domain for logonâ€. 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…
How to mitigate Windows Help Security Issue KB2219475 with Group Policy
A Google Engineer recently irresponsibly disclosed to the public after only warning Microsoft 5 days earlier of a vulnerabilities that allows a malicious third-party to take advantage of a security issue with the Help and Support Center in Windows XP/2003 after. As a result this has left many users (and organisations) open to attack using this exploit. Thankfully Microsoft have quickly…
AGPM Part 7: How to makes changes to existing uncontrolled GPO’s in AGPM
This post is part of a series of posts about Advanced Group Policy Management. If you want to see the other post in this series you can use the links below: Introduction to Advanced Group Policy Management (a.k.a AGPM) v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management Client v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) Server…
AGPM Part 6: How to create make changes to Group Policy Objects in AGPM
This post is part of a series of posts about Advanced Group Policy Management. If you want to see the other post in this series you can use the links below: Introduction to Advanced Group Policy Management (a.k.a AGPM) v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management Client v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) Server…
AGPM Part 5: Delegating permission to Review/Edit GPO’s in AGPM
This post is part of a series of posts about Advanced Group Policy Management. If you want to see the other post in this series you can use the links below: Introduction to Advanced Group Policy Management (a.k.a AGPM) v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management Client v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) Server…
AGPM Part 4: How to configure the AGPM client via Group Policy to automatically connect to the AGPM server
This post is part of a series of posts about Advanced Group Policy Management. If you want to see the other post in this series you can use the links below: Introduction to Advanced Group Policy Management (a.k.a AGPM) v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management Client v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) Server…
AGPM Part 3: How to install Advanced Group Policy Management Server v4
This post is part of a series of posts about Advanced Group Policy Management. If you want to see the other post in this series you can use the links below: Introduction to Advanced Group Policy Management (a.k.a AGPM) v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management Client v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) Server…
