Tag: hotfix
New and Fixed Group Policy Setting with Windows 10 KB4490481
New and fixed Group Policy Setting with Windows 10 KB4490481
Group Policy Hotfix for Defender Mitigation Options Error
Just a quick note that Microsoft has recently release a hot fix KB4338819 that fixes and issue with the Mitigation option. This is a Windows Defender setting that can be found under the Administrative Templates>Computers>System>Mitigation Options setting. The fix is described as: Addresses an issue that may cause the Mitigation Options Group Policy client-side extension to fail during GPO processing….
More Microsoft Guidance on MS16-072
So Microsoft PFE team have just released a blog called “Who broke my user GPO?” which is rather ironically title as the answer was “Microsoft did”. But anyhow, this new post has a detail description of the problem and what can be done to fix the issues and what to do if you have AGPM deployed in your environment.. It…
Vulnerability in Group Policy Fixed with MS15-011 & MS15-014
Today Microsoft published hotfix MS15-011 and MS15-014 that addressed a potential issues that could allow an man in the middle attack on computer. This vulnerability affected system that could be compromised by a man in the middle or what I like to call a “Coffee Shop Attack”. The summary is that by interfering with the traffic that is being sent…
Hotfix: Internet Explorer Group Policy Preferences do not apply to Internet Explorer 9
If you have have been using the some what simple hack I mentioned to make Group Policy Preference work with Internet Explorer 9 you will be relieved to know that Microsoft have now fixed an official hotfix to make this work. You can get read the full Microsoft Kb article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2530309 . However you should take special attention at…
Hotfix: A mapped drive that has the non-persistent flag set is displayed as a disconnected drive
I have seen this issue be raised many many many many many many times on the Group Policy forums so I thought I would quick do a blog post about this new fix from Microsoft to make the “reconnect†flag work properly for drive mappings. The hotfix KB2551503 fixes “A mapped drive that has the non-persistent flag set is displayed as a…
New Group Policy KB Articles
I mentioned last week a few new Group Policy related Knowledge base articles that were just released / updated. Well Scott Goad from one of my favourite blogs (Ask the Directory Service Team) just published a round up of all the Active Directory KB articles from 6th Feb to 19th Feb . So for your convenience I have extracted the…
Updated: Group Policy Hotfix’s in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 1
Microsoft today announced (after what seems to be a very long time) they have RTM’d Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 and it will be released to the public on February 22nd. Update: Service Pack 1 is now available for download for TechNet and MSDN subscribers. Previously I had listed the hotfixes in the beta version…
