Group Policy Team Blog
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AGPM 4.0 to be released in October
As part of the official announcement on the MDOP blog, Advanced Group Policy Management 4.0 (AGPM)...
Author: GPTeam Date: 09/15/2009
Group Policy Preferences Client-Side Extension Hotfix Rollup Released
Quick note to let you all know that today we released a GPP update hotfix. We do plan to have this...
Author: GPTeam Date: 09/09/2009
Migration Tables do not work with Group Policy Preferences
We have had an issue raised to us about Migration Tables and GPP that we wanted to take a moment to...
Author: GPTeam Date: 09/09/2009
Windows 7 ADMX Settings Spreadsheet Released
We have received numerous questions about when the Group Policy Settings Spreadsheet would be...
Author: GPTeam Date: 09/03/2009
WMI Queries the easy way, Item-level Targeting the much faster and easier way
Hey – this is Florian from the GP Team’s MVPs again. It seems like some of you would like set up WMI...
Author: GPTeam Date: 08/24/2009
Fun with Security Settings
LiliaG: Reporting from Australia (TechEd Australia 2009) Almost everyone at the Brisbane User...
Author: GPTeam Date: 08/07/2009
Cool Articles: Group Policy Modeling, Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 functionality
I just read a couple of great articles written in the past couple months about Group Policy. Ever...
Author: GPTeam Date: 08/06/2009
Security Filtering, WMI Filtering, and Item-level Targeting in Group Policy Preferences
Hi, I’m Florian, one of the Group Policy MVPs . You may know us MVPs from conferences, seminars,...
Author: GPTeam Date: 07/30/2009
GP Preferences: Add a new printer, set as default
You might know GP Preferences is great for mapping drives, pushing out shortcuts, and adding new...
Author: GPTeam Date: 06/24/2009
How do I migrate PolicyMaker Items to Group Policy Preference Items?
PolicyMaker customers have been waiting for an easy way to migrate their PolicyMaker settings over...
Author: GPTeam Date: 06/19/2009
Power Management in Group Policy – What do you do?
Green is the color of the decade, at least for the moment. What can you do from a Group Policy...
Author: GPTeam Date: 06/16/2009
SYSVOL migration from File Replication Services (FRS) to Distributed File System Replication (DFSR)
It’s come to my attention (in a blunt object kind of way) that you’ve been waiting to...
Author: GPTeam Date: 05/14/2009
Environment Variables in GP Preferences
There was a great question in the blog comments, I’m going to post the answer up here because I...
Author: GPTeam Date: 05/13/2009
Group Policy at Tech Ed 2009 keynote: Mark Russinovich demos Group Policy PowerShell cmdlets
During this morning’s keynote at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles, technical fellow Mark Russinovich...
Author: GPTeam Date: 05/11/2009
Microsoft Management Summit 2009
I just got back from another great MMS in Las Vegas and I’d like to thank everyone who stopped...
Author: GPTeam Date: 05/06/2009
Office 2007 SP2 Group Policy Administrative Templates Released
Go Office team! They just released the new Administrative Templates for Office 2007 SP2. From the...
Author: GPTeam Date: 04/29/2009
Passwords in Group Policy Preferences (updated)
Have you ever wanted to configure a preference item to include a specific user name and password?...
Author: GPTeam Date: 04/22/2009
Check a setting in all GPO's (Security, ADMX, and more)
You configured a setting in one GPO and want to know what that setting is across all GPO’s. You want...
Author: GPTeam Date: 04/14/2009
PolicyMaker Migration Tool: Resetting release expectations
Some time ago Michael blogged about a migration tool we were building for PolicyMaker Profiles,...
Author: GPTeam Date: 04/09/2009
Set a registry key value from the command line using Group Policy PowerShell cmdlets
The scene: You want to set a registry key of a 3rd party application but you don’t want to...
Author: GPTeam Date: 04/01/2009
Group Policy Preferences Not Applying on Some Clients: Client-Side Extension, XMLLite
Group Policy Preferences quick tip: To ensure that preferences are applied to clients, make sure...
Author: GPTeam Date: 03/27/2009
PowerShell Script: Backup all GPOs that have been modified this month
The scene: Backups take up space, but they’re a crucial part of GPO management. Ideally, one...
Author: GPTeam Date: 03/26/2009
AGPM: Install the right version, backup and restore the archive, and learn more
There is new content lurking in the Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) TechNet Library. Stop by...
Author: GPTeam Date: 03/18/2009
Search GPO : How to find a Group Policy Object
It’s interesting what you can discover when you right-click on something. For example, in the Group...
Author: GPTeam Date: 03/13/2009
Group Policy Troubleshooting – helpful Event log categories
As many of you know Group Policy troubleshooting can be a bit of a challenge. If you have not made...
Author: GPTeam Date: 03/04/2009
Group Policy Preferences: Deploy Printer Settings
We received an email from Daniel today. He’s done a great blog post on how to use Group Policy...
Author: GPTeam Date: 02/20/2009
Group Policy Cmdlets, Replication & the '-Server' Parameter
Hello GP Junkies! My name is Bryan Garretson, and I want to let you know about an interesting way we...
Author: GPTeam Date: 02/19/2009
PowerShell Script with GP cmdlets: Registry setting, Link
The following is a sample script that sets a Preference registry value in a GPO, then compares that...
Author: GPTeam Date: 02/18/2009
Starter GPO's : What are they?
Starter GPO's were introduced in Windows Server 2008 as a download and return in Windows Server 2008...
Author: GPTeam Date: 02/16/2009
GP Preferences Will Reduce Logon Scripts : Mapping Drives
Too often, I ask if people are familiar with GP Preferences and get a blank stare. I will say this...
Author: GPTeam Date: 02/11/2009
The Script Center: Group Policy scripting is the focus this week
Head on over to the Script Center this week (February 9-12) where the Scripting Guys are focusing on...
Author: GPTeam Date: 02/09/2009
AGPM Planning and Operations Guides posted to the web
I'm happy to announce that the AGPM Planning Guide is now live on our public site here.Between the...
Author: GPTeam Date: 02/04/2009
Upcoming Seminar: Derek Melber
Derek Melber, a recently mentioned Group Policy MVP, will be giving several seminars this coming...
Author: GPTeam Date: 02/02/2009
Introduction to Windows PowerShell Cmdlets in Windows 7
New Year, New…console session? Here’s a quick look at creating a new GPO using the...
Author: GPTeam Date: 01/14/2009
TechNet Magazine: Derek Melber on Group Policy Preferences
Every now and then, as Program Manager’s for the Group Policy team, they let us out of out...
Author: GPTeam Date: 01/12/2009
Test post
Check it out for yourself!
Author: GPTeam Date: 01/06/2009
Questions on ADMX in Windows XP and Windows 2003 environments
We had a question a couple of days ago about the usage of ADMX template formats in Windows XP/Server...
Author: GPTeam Date: 12/17/2008
Locking down AGPM for least privilege
I actually wrote this post awhile ago on my blog and forgot to cross post this to the GP blog. Bad...
Author: GPTeam Date: 12/12/2008
Group Policy in Windows 7
PowerShell! The name alone should get you excited. Wait until you see all the cool stuff you can do...
Author: GPTeam Date: 11/19/2008
Do I need to update my server to support new policies? When do I need to separate policies?
I just blogged about this very question over on my blog. Essentially the question we hear a lot is...
Author: GPTeam Date: 11/19/2008
Troubleshooting: Quick Fixes
Everyone has their own troubleshooting quick checks; here are some that you may know well, and...
Author: GPTeam Date: 11/05/2008
AGPM 3.0 doesnt preserve all the Deny ACEs
We had a great customer question today on AGPM 3.0 that would probably interest quite a few of you...
Author: GPTeam Date: 10/27/2008
Red / Green Underlining continued: Using Preferences to set IE settings like preference, or like policy
How to: use F5-F6-F7-F8 to control what settings you want pushed out, lock down the Advanced tab...
Author: GPTeam Date: 10/20/2008
Red / Green: GP Preferences doesn’t work even though the policy applied and after gpupdate force
I set a Preference setting, but it didn’t work. The answer? Probably F5-F6-F7-F8. GP...
Author: GPTeam Date: 10/13/2008
PolicyMaker Preferences Migration tool
To keep you in the loop, many of you have asked whether we intend to provide support for PolicyMaker...
Author: GPTeam Date: 10/09/2008