If you have ever done much work with group policies, then you have undoubtedly found out that managing group policies are an organization wide basis can be a complicated endeavor. That’s primarily due to the hierarchical nature of group policies. Group policy settings can be applied at the OU, site, domain, and local computer levels. [...]
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Creating a Group Policy Central Store
April 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, Tips & Techniques
One of the issues that sometimes made managing group policies difficult in Windows XP and in Windows Server 2003 was the non centralized nature of the group policy template files. For example, Microsoft offers downloadable templates that allow you to manage Microsoft Office via group policy. Even so, these templates are not automatically available from [...]
Backing Up Group Policy Objects
April 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, How To Keep Secure
Introduction
Not too long ago I got a call from a friend who was having some problems related to group policy objects on his network. My friend made a habit of backing up his domain controllers on a regular basis. Even so, someone in the organization have made some changes to some group policy objects, and [...]
Tags: GPO·GPO Backup·Group Policy Object
Automating Group Policy Management with Windows PowerShell
April 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, Tips & Techniques
Group Policy is a powerful yet complex technology. It is used, to some extent, in almost every environment. And for many who rely on it heavily to secure and lock down their Windows environment, Group Policy is a key part of their infrastructure.
That said, I am always surprised to see how little automation is used [...]
Tags: Automating Group Policy·Cmdlets in Wind Server 2008·Cmdlets in Windows 7·Creating Group Policy Reports·GPMC·GPO·Group Policy Management Console·Group Policy Object·Using GPMC APIs·Windows Group Policy·Windows PowerShell
Understanding Administrative Templates in GPO
April 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, Introductions, Technology
What are Administrative Template in Group Policy Objects?
In Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 Group Policy Objects (also known as GPO) you may find hundreds of useful settings and configuration options, all nicely divided in to specific sections. With GPO, you can create policies to centralize the management of user and computer settings. Amongst the [...]
Tags: ADM Files·Administrative Templates·GPO·GPO Administrative Templates·GPO Templates·Group Policy Objects
Using Custom ADM Templates with Windows Server 2008/Vista/7
March 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Advanced Topics, How To, Tips & Techniques
Introduction
There are numerous companies out there that have developed custom ADM templates to handle their hard to reach Registry settings. These custom ADM templates were necessary because Microsoft did not, and could not, include all Registry settings in the default Group Policy Object (GPO) settings. These ADM templates have been around for a long time [...]
Tags: ADM·ADM Files·ADM for Windows Server 2008·ADM Templates·ADM Vista·GPO·GPO Settings·Group Policy Object·Group Policy Setting·Registry Settings·Using ADM·Using Custom ADM