TechNet Magazine: Group Policy

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• Sustainable Computing: Conserving Energy with Group Policy
  Mark Aggar, Pat Stemen, and Michael Walsh - May 2008
  Enforcing a power management strategy on the systems throughout your entire organization can add up to substantial savings. And Windows Vista includes 35 power management settings that you can configure and enforce with Group Policy. Here is some guidance for configuring some of the more common settings.

• Utility Spotlight: ADMX Migrator
  Lance Whitney - February 2008
  With Windows Vista, the format for Group Policy templates has changed to an XML-based structure. The ADMX Migrator utility can convert your legacy ADM files into the new ADMX format, as well as help you easily create your own custom ADMX files.

• Group Policy: Inside ADM and ADMX Templates for Group Policy
  Jeremy Moskowitz - January 2008
  ADM files are both necessary and often confusing. Don't let this slow your Group Policy efforts. This guided tour will help you better understand what's inside ADM files and the new ADMX format, which tools you can use to handle them, and how you can make the best use of these files.

• Group Policy: Optimizing Group Policy Performance
  Darren Mar-Elia - January 2008
  All Group Policy is not the same, and knowing the differences between types can help you fine-tune performance on your systems. Explore monolithic and functional GPs, learn how to process Group Policy, and find out what happens when Group Policy changes occur.

• Group Policy: Dive into Advanced Group Policy Management
  Derek Melber - January 2008
  AGPM, or Advanced Group Policy Management, is a handy tool that lets you work with Group Policy Objects in ways that other tools don't. And it's now available to members of the Microsoft Software Assurance program. Check out how you can use AGPM to edit GPOs offline, delegate administration, track changes, and more.

• Security: Managing Hardware Restrictions via Group Policy
  Jeremy Moskowitz - June 2007
  USB thumb-disk keys and other removable devices can make your personal life easier but your professional life harder. For improved security, you need a way to control what hardware devices your users are installing on their work systems. Now you can use Group Policy to control which devices they can use and which ones they can’t.

• Windows Administration: Simplify Group Policy Administration with Windows PowerShell
  Thorbjörn Sjövold - May 2007
  Windows PowerShell is set to make your job significantly easier. See how GPMC APIs written for Windows Scripting Host languages can be consumed directly from Windows PowerShell, greatly simplifying the way you manage Group Policy.

• Windows Administration: Dig into New Group Policy Templates in Windows Vista
  Darren Mar-Elia - February 2007
  Windows Vista introduces significant changes to Group Policy templates. Find out everything you need to know about the new format, called ADMX, and how these changes will improve the administration of system configurations.

• Windows Administration: Your Guide to Group Policy Troubleshooting
  Derek Melber - February 2007
  Getting to the bottom of Group Policy issues can be a difficult process, but understanding how Group Policy works, and where problems can arise, makes things easier. This overview will help you troubleshoot Group Policy issues like a guru.

• Utility Spotlight: Group Policy Inventory
  Greg Steen - February 2007

• Windows Vista: More Powerful Group Policy in Windows Vista
  Jeremy Moskowitz - November 2006
  The Group Policy infrastructure has been overhauled, delivering new management features, new policy settings, support for multiple local GPOs, and much more. This article looks under the hood at the many changes Windows Vista brings to Group Policy.

• Windows Administration: Manage Printers with New Group Policy Features in Windows Server 2003 R2
  Jeremy Moskowitz - August 2006

• Security: Group Policy: Ins And Outs Of Delegation And Control
  Jeremy Moskowitz - May • June 2006

• Windows Administration: Secure Your Desktops With The New Group Policy Settings In SP2
  Jeremy Moskowitz - Spring 2005
  Group Policy lets you control who can access resources across your network and what types of actions users can perform based on their roles. New settings in Windows XP SP2 offer even tighter control so you can regulate more and worry less.