question about remote access
Recently I found a weird thing that if I remove the gpo about restricted administrators group which includes domain admins, then I can no longer remote into any workstations or servers saying access...
View ArticleDesktop Wallpaper Group Policy doesn't work for Win 10 clients
Hii, I have win 7 computers now upgrading to win 10. I have installed win 10 on some PCs. We have a GPO (Domain controller win server 2008 R2) to set Desktop wallpaper of client PCs (We keep replacing...
View ArticleGPUpdate /force hangs, no error message, no events
Pretty much the title. I've been trying to force Group Policy updates on a single machine on my domain, and the process simply hangs while displaying "Updating policy...". I've seen some other...
View ArticleHow to flush out the old domain policy on a joined domain Win 7 client
Hi everyone,Thank you very much for your help on this. Currently, I have a PC joined a domain with domain GPOs. Now, I just like to flush out whatever old GPOs on the machine so it will take a new GPO...
View ArticleTurn on System Restore (Not how to enable it) via group policy for Windows10
It seems on a clean install of Windows 10 that System restore is turned off by default. It is enabled, but turned off. Enabled meaning that I can configure it however I want but Turned Off as in it...
View ArticleGPO Query
Hi All, We have added a New Domain controller to the existing DC. I need to make sure my GPO's are applied Properly. Existing DC : Windows 2008 SP2, Integrated DNS and GPO New DC :...
View ArticleInstall pfx cert in user personal store via gpo
I've looked through tons of blogs, websites, forums, etc and still cannot get my certificate to install.I placed my cert in the personal snap-in on the server (2012 R2), created a GPO to install the...
View ArticleWindows 2012R2 servers NOT rebooting when configured to do so after...
Good morningI am trying to troubleshoot an issue where my Windows 2012R2 (other servers such as 2008/R2 don't seem to have this problem) servers do not automatically reboot after installing updates...
View ArticleSet a default associations configuration
Hi Guys, I'm deploying Windows 10 Enterpise November Update (Build 10586) via MDT. I have set VLC to be the default audio/video player, Adobe Reader to be the default PDF viewer and Chrome to be the...
View ArticleAnybody know how to uncheck"allow Office to connect to the internet" using...
<img alt="" src="https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/getfile/855341" />Anybody know how to uncheck"allow Office to connect to the internet" using GPO? Where is the setting?. Its under the...
View ArticleGPP Printers: TCP/IP printer gets port IP_2.0.0.0
Hello all.I'm dealing with GPP printers and try to create two TCP/IP printers.Action is "update", Ienabled "use DNS-Name", the names I enter do exist in DNS and resolve to addressess that answer...
View ArticleForce default search engine Windows 10 / IE11
Hi all,I have a GPO that forces the default IE search engine.This GPO works on all our Windows XP/7 workstations but does not work on a Windows 10 PC.What could I do ?Thank you.Regards,FXE
View ArticleLogging off Idle Clients
In a Windows Server 2008 R2 enviroment with 50 clients how from Group Policy would I set up the ability to have the client computers log off if they are idle for more than a specified time?
View Articlelong log in time
I logged into a Windows 7 32-bit enterprise machine today. It look a very long time to log in, I saw the "welcome" screen for many minutes. Once it did log me in I went to the group policy \...
View ArticleForce Lock Screen Windows 10
I've got a GPO for Windows 8/8.1/10 that is set to force a specific lock screen. This works fine for Windows 8/8.1 but not so well for 10. With Windows 10, it replaces the Default lock screen (Seen...
View ArticleA little help configuring some Windows 10 specific GPO settings
Hi, could any body please help found some GPO or the way to do the following on windows 10 machines?I have a 2008R2 AD, I have already installed the updated ADMX templatesWhat I what to achieve is the...
View ArticleWindows 7 Pro Users with Offline Files enabled unable to open their offline...
Hi all,One of my colleague complained that he could not open his offline files on his notebook yesterday night when he reached home. Also, yesterday afternoon our server 2008 Domain Controller shutdown...
View ArticleGroup Policy For Wireless Clients Not Working As Desired
Hello All,(Windows Server 2012 R2 Domain, Windows2008 Radius, Windows7 Wireless Clients)(Goal)- We want to have the ability to create a domain password policy so that our wireless client computers will...
View ArticleHow to authorize an account to create and run Scheduled Task within Scheduled...
How to authorize an account to create and run Scheduled Task within Scheduled Task GP option ?I created Scheduled Task option inside Computer Preferences and set it to "Run if user is logged on or...
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