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Managing ADMX Changes in Windows 10

This blog post was written by Mark Empson, who is a Premier Field Engineer based in the UK.   Back in 2013, I started to uncover some challenges around upgrading ADMX/L files in the policy definitions...

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ADMX Version History

Hi Everyone,   My name is Kai Ohnesorge and I am working with Microsoft in a position as Premier Field Engineer (PFE) based in Germany. In my job I am confronted with a large amount of GPO topics, one...

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Configuration Management on Servers

Nano Server is a remotely administered headless server operating system optimized for private clouds and datacenters. Nano Server is significantly physically smaller than Server Core, has no local...

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Modern Windows Management

  The Intune blog has a new post, “The Path to Modernizing Windows Management“. It discusses the various options available to administrators when it comes to managing Windows 10 devices. Although there...

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GP MVP Activity

We already talked about Darren’s tool to investigate Group Policy performance, so here’s what some other GP MVPs are up to:   Jeremy Moskowitz blogs about how to use his product, PolicyPak, to disable...

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Group Policy and Logon Impact

You can make decisions as you design and deploy your Group Policy Objects (GPOs) that will have an impact on how quickly your Windows desktops start and become usable to your users. Some of these...

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Group Policy Deployment: Core Network Companion Guide

We have a new document in our technet library. The Core Network Companion Guide has a section specifically about Group Policy Deployment. Check it out! Or just take a look at James McIllece’s blog post...

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Listing Disabled GPOs in a Forest

This blog post is written by Judith, our technical writer, and based on an old blog post by Jeffrey Snover. (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2007/01/11/sorting-out-groupby.aspx) Jeffrey...

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Group Policy in Windows Server 2012: Infrastructure Status

  You may be asking yourself, “What does infrastructure status have to do with Group Policy”. Well, group policy depends on other technologies to ensure that policy settings are replicated throughout...

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Group Policy in Windows Server 2012: Results Report Improvements

  Another change we made in Windows Server 2012 is in the Resultant Set of Policy reports. In previous versions of Server, you had to look at the results report, and the event log, and the tracing logs...

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Group Policy in Windows Server 2012: Using Remote GPUpdate

Group Policy in Windows Server 2012: Using Remote GPUpdate If someone calls to say their computer doesn’t work quite right, the first thing you might have them do is run gpupdate /force to ensure they...

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Group Policy in Windows Server 2012: Overview

Now that Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have been released, we’d like to share with you some of the exciting enhancements that we’ve added for Group Policy. While we hear plenty of great things from...

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Group Policy Settings Reference Spreadsheet

The Group Policy settings reference spreadsheet that coversthe available administrative template settings and security settings forWindows Server 2012, Windows 8, and all earlier versions of Windows is...

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Windows Server “8” Settings Spreadsheet

The latest Group Policy settings reference spreadsheet that covers the available administrative template settings and security settings for Windows Server “8” Beta, Windows 8 Consumer Preview and all...

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How to add comment for a GPO with PowerShell

You might have seen GP MVP Jeremy Moskowitz’s post on how to recycle GPO comments. While Jeremy points out you can do this without a script…. You can also do it with a script! Our tech writer, Judith,...

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Listing all GPOs in the current forest

This post was written by Judith, a technical writer for Group Policy. This is the second post in a series on ways to use Powershell with Group Policy. See the first post on getting started with RSAT...

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RSAT & GP Cmdlets

This post was written by Judith, a technical writer for Group Policy. This will be the first post in a series on ways to use Powershell with Group PolicyI wanted to play around with the Group Policy...

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Get GPO Backup with Powershell

Jeff Hicks, one of Microsoft’s Powershell MVPs, has written a great script for managing GPO backups:The GroupPolicy module from Microsoft offers a great deal of functionality from a command line. In...

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Copy and Merge GPOs through Powershell

Ashley McGlone has a great script up for merging GPOs together through powershell. I wish I had this script five years ago. At the time I was searching for a way to combine or merge GPOs, but there...

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More on searching group policy

Here’s a quick follow-up to our last post on the existence of GPO search. One of our MVPs, Alan, has a great post up about a Group Policy Search webapp (Previously mentioned on this blog). It includes...

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