Windows 8 and IE10 not accepting Proxy Settings via Group Policy
We have recently introduced a couple of Windows 8 computers in our network, and we are having issues applying the Internet Explorer Proxy Server settings.We use a Microsoft TMG 2010 server as our proxy...
View ArticleDeploy an Internal CA Certificate
Been reading a lot of the previous questions and the option to deploy sounds easy by creating a GPO and going in to the following: Computers Configuration -> Policies -> Windows Settings ->...
View ArticlePrinter Mapping Performance GPP
Hello,we´ve 60 Printers and want to map them through GPP. Mapping should be handled in one GPO with a Filter based on IP-Adress through Item Level Targeting.I would build two items per Printer: one for...
View ArticleSet IE 10 as default browser (in Win 7)
Hello,I need to define the Inernet Explorer 10 as the default web browser of our Windows systems (most of them are Windows 7). Unfortunately, I haven't found an appropriate solution until now, because...
View ArticleOffice 2013 Trusted Locations increase
Hi,Creating a Office 2013 policy and one of the requirements is to use Trusted Locations BUT we require more than the 20 available in the template. Can any advise how we address this? The requirement...
View ArticleServer 2012 & Windows 8.1: Group policy loopback processing mode not working ?
Hello everyone, I have a question about working with server 2012 & 8.1 and group policy loopback processing mode. The thing is I have a test environment with server 2012 and windows 8.0 for group...
View ArticleExtreme slow login on Server 2008 R2 TS at Group Policy Preferences - Printers
I see references to this problem everywhere, going back to 2010. However I'm not finding any real answers.I have Group Policy Preferences installing printers to Terminal Server Users. I have one...
View ArticleAdministrative Template Win8.1
I'm planning on installing a few Win8.1 machines for testing, but need the administrative templates for 8.1 gpo installed on our SBS2008 server. Are these officially available? If not, is there...
View ArticleApp Locker Help
With Crypto Virus costing issue on some machine I'm looking to lock down the %AppData% folder using App-Locker. My issue is that when I apply the policy below it doesn't apply to all subfolders in...
View ArticleCannot Remove Internet Explorer Branding
We had a custom titlebar a while ago, applied in the "Default Domain Policy" (which is problematic, since I cannot just delete the GPO and recreate it). I only discovered this policy after upgrading...
View ArticleIE9 Settings does not apply before i delete the user profile
Hello,I have a situation were i have some users that are not getting the GPO seetings applied that are specific to IE9The .admx file for IE in the my centralstore is for IE8 so they have not been...
View ArticleGroup Policy not completely inheriting
Good Morning,Quick back story before I go into full details. I recently added a 2008 R2 server to my 2003 domain and made it a DC. I did all the following prep to the domain to prepare for this DC,...
View ArticleCertificate enrollment web servce GPO enablement failure
2012 Std R2Added certificate authority role with web services configuring via library hh831625I have verified that IIS has the default site ADPolicyProvider_CEP_Kerbos and I copied the URI <a...
View ArticleWindows failed to apply IP Security settings
Hi,Our server/client environment is a mix of Windows Server 2012, 2008 R2, 2008 and Windows 7. We have nothing below Windows Server 2008. Both the forest and domain functional levels are at Windows...
View ArticleInternet Explorer 9 and GPO
Normally when changing Internet Explorer settings with the GPMC we move to: User configuration -> Preferences -> Control Panel Settings -> Internet Settings. If we select new task we can see...
View ArticleBacking Up GPOs with Server 2012
I have added a member server as Windows 2012 Standard to our domain. I try to backup all the GPOs in the domain using GPMC from the 2012 server but I get an error stating "The specified server cannot...
View ArticleGPO to change Share Permissions
After auditing our servers I found that there were many with shares which had 'Everyone' with full control. I want to get rid of the 'Everyone' and replace it with 'Authneticated Users'. Is there any...
View ArticleUSB is disabled from GPO but in few machine USB is still enabled
Hi,There are few machine on which USB is disabled by group policy but still if i plug in a USB pen drive then its gets connected and gets displayed on desktop. Many times i have updated the the gpo on...
View ArticleSet A Group Policy For OU
Hi, I have a domain named TECH.com with 2 OU (client_computer,servermeber). I want to set group policy for OU client_computer. How..? I did following steps. start->administrative tools->Group...
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Need help with group policy object (GPO) to control Internet Explorer with...
Hi there,I have created group policy object (GPO) to control Internet Explorer option and settings with preferences. Could someone please explain why “automatically detect settings” are greyed out...
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