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...
View ArticleADMX 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...
View ArticleConfiguration 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...
View ArticleModern 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...
View ArticleGP 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...
View ArticleGroup 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...
View ArticleGroup 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...
View ArticleListing 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...
View ArticleGroup 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...
View ArticleGroup 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...
View ArticleGroup 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...
View ArticleGroup 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...
View ArticleGroup 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...
View ArticleWindows 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...
View ArticleHow 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,...
View ArticleListing 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...
View ArticleRSAT & 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...
View ArticleGet 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...
View ArticleCopy 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...
View ArticleMore 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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