Microsoft has now released to the public (download it here) the newest version of Internet Explorer 9 Beta to the public. If you want to know more about the new features in IE9 then i recommend that you check out http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/ to see some of the fantastic stuff that this browser enables. If the new functionality alone is not enough…

Here is another video from Lilia Gutnik (Program Manager with the Group Policy Team) on TechNet Edge about the search features in the Group Policy Management Console. If you have every lost a Group Policy Object or just made an edit and was not sure which GPO you were in then this video will show you how to use the…

Ned Pyle from the Active Directory Service team has just done a super post to the Ask the Directory Services Team called Post-Graduate AD Studies. This is a collection of links to pretty much every AD/Group Policy related TechNet article known to man. Definitely a post that you will want to bookmark to use as a reference whenever you have…

In my previous article In this article Best Practice:Active Directory Structure Guidelines – Part 1 I spoke about some of the guidelines I personally use when developing an Active Directory OU structure. In this next part I will discuss some guidelines I use when designing a Group Policy Object infrastructure. Ideally you should make the the Active Directory OU and…

The beta of Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 beta has now been released to the public for testing. For your benefit I have parsed through the complete list of hotfixes and I have listed out all the group policy specific setting. If you just want the service pack right now you can download it here http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ff183870.aspx I have…

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…

Just a single new hot fix has come out this week that affects group policy… 981704 The file name of an ADM file is displayed incorrectly in the GPMC report in Windows Vista or in Windows Server 2008 This hotfix resolves a problem with a GPO report in the Group Policy Management Console showing as “Extra Registry Settings” if you…

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 your onw applications for automaitcing Group Policy object tasks. Sample’s are: How to Back Up All GPOs in…