Best Practice way to update a Drive Mapping via Group Policy Preferences
Hello all and thanks for your time and expertise.I deployed a drive Mapping for a share with Group Policy Preferences using the Create option. The Drive Letter is Z:.I've since deployed a new server...
View ArticleGPMC settings report showing up different configuration that the actual GPO
Hi,We have 4 sites with 2 DCs in each site. 2 sites were upgraded to Windows server 2008 R2, the remaining are still on server 2003. We applied GPO for Internet Explorer Trusted sites. Looking at the...
View ArticleWin 8 - scripts /GPO and drive mapping
Hi All, I'm having a spot of bother with an inherited infrastructure at a school i work at on getting win 8 to show drive mappings,on a win 7 machine everything is fine, all maps fine.This is a part of...
View ArticleHow much traffic is generated by central store?
Should i have in mind replication traffic, generated by central store?Do templates, stored in central store, replicates with client machines?
View Articlehow to add "create automatic configuration script" url via gpo for IE 10
Hello,I have win 8 clients and DC with win 2008 sp2.I do want to push out proxy configration script to IE 10 and looks like there is another way via preferences to achieve this.How exactly should I be...
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Preference - Internet Settings checkboxes grayed-out
Hi,I am creating a Preference Internet Settings from a Windows 2012 Domain Controller.I need to select the checkboxes "Automatically Detect Settings" and "Use automatic configuration script":The...
View ArticleWhy do we create custome MMC console to manage security policy for new GPO?
Why do we create custome MMC console to manage security policy for new GPO? Since we can apply GPO policy through AD users and Computers in a domain or OU or site
View ArticleDomain Controller Security policy group policy not working
I have configured Domain Controller Security policy group policy but it seem like doesn't work at all, however withDomain Securitypolicy is working fine.I mean after apply some policy to Domain...
View Articleservice needs full control of...
<p>Greetings - </p><p>My MS WIN 2008 Server machines are all hardened for security purposes. However, i'm trying to impliment a softening GPO due to some application requirements....
View ArticleWin 2008 Server R2 Slow / Long login RDP ( Administrators only )
Hello , I am having problems with Administrators who RDP to a server takes a long time to get to the desktop . The only thing I think we can see that might be causing this long delay is group policy...
View ArticleProxy Settings - GPO - Server 2012 and Windows 7 Ultimate
Okay, so my boss very simply wants me to block Facebook and MySpace from volunteers and clients using our network. I found out that Microsoft has completely taken away all GPO methods of doing...
View Articlegpupdate /force on DC gives error
This is a one server shop. Windows 2008R2.I created a new GPO, and after a few hours, the clients weren't getting it. So I logged onto the server and didgpupdate /forceand got this: The processing of...
View Article2 GPOs with firewall exceptions: one applies, one does not
I've run across what appears to be a strange issue in our Group Policy setup.We have 2 GPOs set up to add firewall exceptions within our domain. One has a firewall exception defined for program A; the...
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Group Policy ADMX template for App-V 5.0 not applying
Good Day, I have been trying to figure out why when I apply changes to the GPO AppV in particular, that none of the policies are applying. However, when I look at the registry on the client PC. Here is...
View ArticleSecurity Zones and Content Ratings just for trusted sites
Hello,I'm trying to create a GPO to add some sites to IE local intranet and Trusted zone. If I go to User Configuration-> Administrative Templates-> Windows Components-> Internet...
View ArticleApply group policies to more than one forest/domain
Hi,I have 3 forests. One is a single-domain forest, the other two (which are identical in structure) have 3 child domains.In the first forest (single domain forest), I have set some group policies. I...
View ArticleGPO Set Office Word Workgroup Template Location
I am trying to set the Word workgroup Template location by GPO.we are in a server 2003 domain with XP and Windows 7 Clients.a mixture of office versions 2003/2007/2010.i have read that i can use the...
View ArticleAGPM 4 SP1 on Windows 2008 R2
We currently have AGPM 4 running on Windows 2008 R2. I would like to upgrade to AGPM 4 SP1 on the Windows 2008 R2 server. As long as we use Windows 8 with AGPM 4 SP 1 as the client for editing GPOs...
View ArticleDesktop background using Group Policy
Hi Guys,we have set it up GP for applying desktop background as globally , we have wide laptop users .. the background wallpaper showing when user in our network. If user not in our network its showing...
View ArticlePrevent google chrome to set as default web browser through group policy
HiI have IE default browser set through GPO. Now need to set chrome as secondary default web browser through GPO or scrip or any registry settings.How can I achieve this
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