2008 R2 Group policy: roaming network printers
On Server 2008 R2, how do you create printers that roam with a roaming user profile?I've been using 2008 R2 for about four years, and virtually all network printers I've created are in the Computers...
View ArticleIE8 to IE10 Upgrade - 2008 R2/Windows 7?
Hi all, Ive been looking on the net and cant get any concrete information on how to upgrade from IE8 to IE10 with GP on a 2008 R2 DC? It seems to point to the 2012 DC GP, which is not in my...
View ArticleSetting Default Outlook Signature By Group Policy
HiI am attempting to standardise our company's email signature for all users. A contact supplied me with a VBA script which generates a signature based on the user's AD information. This works great...
View ArticleInheritance from GPOs
Hi,I'm trying to impose tighter restrictions in our domain regarding who is allowed to logon to which computers.In general, that can be achieved with a group policy with the setting 'allow logon...
View ArticleBlock Group Policy on a User only on a specific machine while the same policy...
I have policy applied on users but i want to disable this policy on specific user on specific machine otherwise i need the same user when trying to log on any other machine the same policy applied on...
View Articlewireless addresses
hello - I'm looking for a way to block non domain mobile wireless devices from getting a dhcp address, they are filling up our dhcp scopes.I found a way to do this by user account but then their domain...
View Articlemapping
I want to use group policy preferences to map two network locations. The first one is pretty straight forward for home directories \\servershare\users\%username%. This works fine.For the second...
View ArticleMultiple Staging folders after deploying GPO with AGPM 4.1
Every time I create a new Controlled GPO, Import settings or use Cab files, when I deploy the GPO I end up with multiple staging folders being created under the Unique ID. Some of the folders have...
View ArticleDisable IE 10 & 11 Security Alert popup w/ Group Policy
We get a Security Alert popup when accessing a https site"You are abut to view pages over a secure connection....."With previous version of IE, user can simply check box for "In the future, do not show...
View ArticleGP Prefs deploying Internet Explorer (ver,9, 10 or 11) Favs
Hello,I've got over 60 favorites (URLs) to deploy to Windows 7 Prof. machines. Several different folders contain the different Internet Explorer Favorites, ie. FOLDER1\link1, link2, etc. FOLDER2\link1,...
View ArticleTrying to deploy Firefox in GPO and does not work, Can MSI be a problem?
I want to deploy Firefox from our Windows Server 2008 R2 but it does not work. My clients are Win7 and WinXP.The result of gpresult /r tells me the particular policy is applied but software does not...
View ArticleGPO to disable changing wireless profile settings
I've got a GPO to deploy a PEAP MSCHAP v2 wireless profile to certain domain computers. The computers receive the wireless profile assigned through GPO, the connection works, however, I noticed that...
View ArticlePassword Complexity Policy is not applying.
We need to change our password complexity policy by Monday, so I am testing this now. I created a test OU for computers and a test OU for users. I created a test user and placed it in the test users...
View ArticleUpdate of local administrator account is wiping the additional members of the...
Hello all, I'm trying to perform 2 tasks with Group policy preferences on the local machines1. update the local administrator settings (set no password expiry, add another emergency account we can...
View ArticleQuestion about group policy on server 2012
Hi there, potentially a stupid question but imma ask anyway.At work we use server 2008 and windows 7 client machines. We set the login screen / lock screen back ground to the comapny logo for all...
View ArticleError 0x80070510 Unable to move media files due to storage policy.
I don't know much about the situation i am in, all i know is i am an admin on the network i am trying to modify and when i try to move media files around my laptop i get an error, I've been looking...
View ArticleMSI Deployment
I want to deploy an MSI program through Group Policy. But it should meet some conditions.1. Program will be deployed only if the program is not installed on the computer2. Installation will be taken...
View ArticleMSI Deployment
I want to deploy an MSI program through Group Policy. But it should meet some conditions.1. Program will be deployed only if the program is not installed on the computer2. Installation will be taken...
View ArticleFile GPP preference item fails path not found
Hi,I have a GPP preference item, for a file, to copy it from a file share to C:\ on my servers.The computer 'SetACL.exe' preference item in the 'Base Tools {0CC263CF-2996-40A5-8690-9C8E7A2314C5}' Group...
View ArticleCorrupt printer driver
Server is 2008R2 and clients are Win7At my work we deploy printer drivers via group policy but when a client manages to corrupt one of the drivers it is a painful process to fix it. In order to delete...
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