Adobe 812 Software Installation
I have a gpo for my Windows 7 workstations that was installing Adobe 812, GeneralSettingDeployment typeAssignedDeployment source\\fps01\software$\AdobeRdr8\AcroRead.msiUninstall this application when...
View ArticleVery slow "applying group policy drive maps policy" across WAN
Here is the scenario. We have a branch office location where it is taking several minutes to logon to the network. I have turned on verbose messages and have found that "applying group policy drive...
View ArticleGPMC is stuck at "Group Policy Management is loading"
Hi,We have several DC's with different Windows Server versions installed on them. One of them has Windows Server Standard 2012 R2.We have created a central policy store and copied all W2012R2 policy...
View ArticleWindows 10 GPO Unable To Map Drives
We recently upgraded our client PCs to Windows 10 and had sorted out a majority of the issues. This week we found that several of our users no longer had their mapped drives appearing in explorer. We...
View ArticleCannot Create New Group Policy Preferences
In Group Policy Editor I cannot create new Group Policy Preference items in the Control Panel Settings (Data Sources to Start Menu in Group Policy Management Editor). I was trying to create a file...
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AD user still not getting lockout
on a previous thread how do you apply "account lockout policy" to non domain member computers?i inquire about AD users logging in from non-AD member computers/devices. i have a test PC and AD user and...
View ArticleStartup script did not launch service in UAC enabled computers
Hello,Could somebody help with one issue:Thru domain GPO we assigned a startup script(.cmd file). GPO is linked to OU.Inside script there is a command "net start SERVICE_A" that should start a specific...
View ArticleAdding a desktop icon via GPP with a Mandatory profile
Hello everyone.I work within Education and our students use Mandatory profiles. I have a few shortcuts which i want to put onto the desktop of the PCs although when i try to add these policies with...
View ArticleAccount policies on an AWS DC
Due to AWS limitations my user account is a local admin on a DC but not a domain admin. For that reason I can't edit the Default GPO nor the Default Domain Controllers GPO. I can't add any new policy...
View ArticleGroup Policy issue
Hi,My Group policy stooped working. I have been facing this past 3 months. None of the solutions working.I planned to uninstall completely Group policy .Can you please help me how uninstall?Thanks in...
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get rid of the "Get Office" buttons, ads etc everything
Hello - we deploy Office via SCCM but users keep clicking this annoying button which is entirely different.Is there a GPO that will preventthis from happening on my domain?
View ArticleCannot Get Group Policy To Change Printer Settings
I am using Group Policy to install printers. Under User Configuration - Preferences - Control Panel Settings - Printers, the printers are set to Update.On the Print Server, I made a change in the...
View ArticleModify Windows server 2012
We currently have a published desktop in Citrix for server 2008, I can assure you this topic is related to Microsoft Group Policy.The objective is to publish a server 20120 desktop instead of an the...
View Articleldife syntax
in this article Step 2: Apply PSOs to Users and Global Security Groupsa note says that the hypen is required at the last line of the code:dn: CN=Demo Policy,CN=Password Settings...
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How can I delete a copy of Default Domain Policy?
I created a copy of Default Domain Policy and can't delete it. The copy exhibits the message: "Access is denied" when I try to delete it.I did some procedures to reset Default Domain Policy, example:...
View ArticleMinimum Password length to 15 characters in Windows Server 2012 R2
Hi,Not able to set the minimum password length to 15 characters in Windows server 2012 R2 via GPO. Some suggested to use ADSIEdit to change the attributes. Is this supported officially by Microsoft? I...
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Setting registry audit settings System access control lists (SACLs) via GPO...
Hello and Merry Christmas,I want to be notified via security eventlog when a new registry key is created under the following branch and some others...
View ArticleGPO to assign explicit NTFS permissions to cmd.exe
Hello! We have a Windows 2012R2 AD DS domain. For security compliance reasons, on about 20 web servers, we need to set particular NTFS level permissions to: "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe"So I decided,...
View ArticleTask creation error on Windows 2008 Server x64 when "Windows Server 2003,...
Hi,I want to make a same task for the clients Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. But I have a problem with Scheduled Task setting in GPO on the Windows 2008 R2 x64...
View ArticleGPO Loopback Processing vs Item-Level Processing
Can someone please explain how these are different?
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