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How to implement the ASD Essential 8 via Group Policy

The Australian Government Department called the Australian Signals Directorate has a list of mitigation strategies that is used to help protect IT system against security risks. This list is called the “ASD Essential 8“. While this its generated by the Australian Government department it is an excellent starting point for securing any organisation or government IT Assets. The really great…

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Office 2016 Administration Templates and Conversion Tool

In case you missed it the Office 2016 ADMX templates are no longer part of the Office Resource Kit like previous version. You can download the ADMX files here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49030 Also, if you have a bunch of Office 2013 GPO setting you want to copy across to Office 2016 policy you can also there is a PowerShell script on GitHub…

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Out Now: Microsoft Office 2013 ADMX/ADML

Microsoft has just release the Office 2013 ADMX/ADML file that allow you to manage the program using Group Policy. You might note that the only the ADMX/ADML (not ADM) files are released for this version of the Office as the program is no longer supported on Windows XP. Get the ADMX/ADML from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx?id=35554\ If you are after the settings spread…

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