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Group Policy Cmdlets in Windows PowerShell Released!
In a previous post, Lilia wrote an Introduction to Windows PowerShell Cmdlets in Windows 7. Windows PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language that helps IT professionals achieve greate... more
Tuesday, Nov 3 by GPTeam

Group Policy Preferences : Colorful and Mysteriously Powerful, just like Windows 7
How could something like CRUD be desirable? In Group Policy world, even the impossible becomes possible. In this entry, you’ll discover why Red does not mean Error and what the different colors mean w... more
Monday, Nov 2 by GPTeam

Cross post: Terminal Server 2003 issues with Group Policy Preferences History Folder
I blogged on my blog today an article on Windows 2003 Terminal Servers and Group Policy Preferences issues with History folders. In the article I discuss why this occurs and what we have done about it... more
Wednesday, Oct 28 by GPTeam

Windows 7 - Do I need to change my Active Directory for new Group Policy features?
Now that you’ve obviously purchased, installed, and started playing with your Windows 7 client, you’re probably fantasizing about all the great things that will happen to your environment when you upg... more
Tuesday, Oct 27 by GPTeam

Group Policy Changes in Windows XP SP3
Im seeing tons of people on forums trying to find the Group Policy Changes in XP SP3 and Windows 7. It seems that both Google and Bing dont return the relevant results if you search for “Group Po... more
Tuesday, Oct 20 by GPTeam

TechEd Europe - Windows Server 2008 R2 GP Changes Session
I mentioned previously that I might be attending TechEd Europe this year to present on Windows Server 2008 R2 Group Policy changes. Well its confirmed. I am definitely coming! (Yeah!!) So I started to... more
Tuesday, Oct 13 by GPTeam

Managing Power with Group Policy Preferences: TechEd Online Video
We've mentioned managing power a couple times here on the blog, including a brief introduction and a detailed step-by-step walk through by Alan Burchill (shows how to configure power options that cons... more
Friday, Oct 9 by GPTeam

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Group Policy Forum

Automate the addition of printers to Group Policy
Hi!I posted a couple of questions in another forum, and got these answers:1) As far as I know, the printer connections added to a Group Policy using the Windows Server 2003 R2 feature, are stored in t... more
Saturday, Nov 7 by Jan Egil Ring

How to tell what GPOs aren't in use
Is there any way to tell what GPOs are not active on any folders within an entire AD domain? I have a lot of GPOs in the list when I go to link an existing one, but most of them aren't active anymore... more
Friday, Nov 6 by RJO22

Site only group policy script
i an trying to map printers w/ .vbs script to only one site, we have 3 sites in our domain. i would like to map printers to domain users laptop when they come to my site only.i have the scripts alread... more
Friday, Nov 6 by mperone

Group Policy Object in server 2008 .
Hi,I am new in windows server 2008. Preior I have worked on windows server 2000 and 2003. I need help about Group Policy Object in windows server 2008 .If I go back in windows server 2003 then we can... more
Friday, Nov 6 by mypass604

IE8 admx-template including older settings?
Hi,I know that for publishing GPOs for IE8 with a non-R2 Server I need to copy the admx template. Does the new admx-file include all the old settings for IE7 and older versions? I need to make sure th... more
Thursday, Nov 5 by MSimonis

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