Well the wait is over and Microsoft today released the final version of Internet Explorer 9 to the web at http://windows.microsoft.com/ie/ . Since the release of the IE9 Release Candidate there have been a few more Group Policy added (see Internet Explorer 9 (RC) Group Policy Settings) so below is an updated list of each IE9 Group Policy settings with…

Update: Now that I have installed the final version of IE9 on 6 computers 2 of them needed to rebook so it would seem that it may or may not require a reboot. This seems to be dependent on what application you are running at the time. Therefore it would still be prudent to plan for a reboot but not…

The guys at the Ask the Directory Services Team blog have just published the list of latest Directory Services related hotfixes ( see http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/10/18/new-directory-services-content-10-10-10-16.aspx ). For your convenience I have put in a direct link and a short description for the two Group Policy related hotfixes. KB2379592 – "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error message…

A new hotfix (KB2171141) is out from Microsoft that resolves an issues with the IE8 search provider when applying the “Prevent Internet Explore Search box from displaying” is enabled (see image below). This policy will remove remove the search box from Internet Explorer (see image below). But then when a user logs on to the computer for the first time…

This is another article I have written that address’s the commonly asked question on the Group Policy forum as to how you can use group policy to block or allow users to specific web site URL’s. It goes without saying that the most effective way to implement content filtering for the internet is to maintain list of sites on your…

I know a lot of people have asked for this third an final instalment on how to use Group Policy to manage home page settings and so I have finally been able to find some time to finish this series of posts. Just to recap in Part 1 I showed you how to configure home page setting using the administrative…

There is currently a Cross Site Scripting issue with SharePoint 3.0 and 2007 which could allow someone to maliciously run an arbitrary script that could allow elevation of privilege in the SharePoint site. There is currently no hotfix out for this issues  however you can mitigate this issue by enabling the XSS Filter in Internet Explorer 8. Unfortunately this is…

If you have ever configured you Internet Explorer setting via the “Internet Explorer Maintenance” group policy setting you might be wondering however to remove these setting now you found a few easier ways to do the same thing. Well its not all that  obvious but if you go to User Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings  you can then right…