Group Policy Central

[...] blog post you may be glad to know that the legacy Internet Explorer Maintenance section of group policy has now been removed in Windows 8. Unfortunately this means that you can now longer natively [...]

[...] controls how tabs in the browser are created. This setting can of course be controlled via Group Policy so that tabs will either appear in the background or foreground in the browser when a user [...]

[...] . In the following post I will show you how to setup this new feature automatically via Group Policy so that you client workstation can automatically (or on demand) to simplify the setup for your [...]

[...] introduced a new feature Internet Explorer Enterprise Mode. This allows admins to assign via Group Policy a way to force web site to render using specific browser modes. Internet Explorer has has a [...]

[...] Thanks to Orin Thomas blog about Windows Server 2012 R2 I have discovered that Microsoft has released a Windows Server 2012 R2 image on Azure. [...]

[...] their newest Group Policy Administrative Template setting for Windows 8.1 Update and Windows Server 2012 R2 Update.  These files are already provided with the operating system when you go to [...]

[...] users home drives via a setting in their AD account (see image below below). Even today with Windows Server 2012 this is this is still an option for administrators to configured users home drives via [...]

[...] the availability of the “Release Preview” (a.k.a Release Candidate) of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. But they have also released the “Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 8 [...]

[...] In Windows 8 there are now two different versions of Internet Explorer 10 installed. One is a Metro looking version that does not support Brower add-ons to [...]

[...] With the release of Internet Explorer 11 from Microsoft for Windows 7 I have seen a number of question asking where are the Group [...]

[...] Microsoft released Internet Explorer 11 for Windows 7 today and as part of this release they have also made the ADM files [...]

[...] In my recent blog post about Internet Explorer 11 I explain how you can enable Enterprise Mode via Group Policy. The option “Let [...]

[...] A long time ago did a blog post explaining how to use the Group Policy Preferences Local Users setting to manager the password of the local accounts. This post explained [...]

[...] post Microsoft has release MS14-025 that blocks the ability to configure passwords using Group Policy Preferences. However as part of the guidance they have also published a PowerShell script that [...]

[...] I did a blog post explaining why the use of passwords (a.k.a. cPasswords)  in  Group Policy Preferences was such a bad idea ( see Why Passwords in Group Policy Preference are VERY BAD). Well [...]

[...] this the IP Address range is then change to the IPv6 format allowing you to now target Group Policy Preferences to IPv6 address ranges. And in case you have a mixed IPv4 / IPv6 rollout you can mix the [...]

[...] Armstrong (a.k.a. Virtual PC Guy) has just published a blog explaining how you can deploy group policy object to be only targeting to virtual servers (see Targeting Group Policy at Hyper-V VMs). To do [...]

[...] setting for your Microsoft programs. It also allows you to import existing Group Policy Object to then compare these setting against Microsoft template or other custom baseline [...]

[...] ;s the following describes how you can enable it using Group Policy. Firstly create a Group Policy Object that targets the workstation that you want to enable the WinRM (e.g. “Enable [...]

[...] it as a Group Policy Preferences Registry Extension setting. To do this open a Group Policy Object that targets the users that you want to enable/disable the power button for and then [...]

[...] post How to implement Internet Explorer 10 Group Policy with Windows 7 appeared first on Group Policy Central. [...]

[...] post Out Now: Remote Server Admin Tools for Windows 10 Technical Preview appeared first on Group Policy Central. by Alan Burchill [...]

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[...] =393 The post Podcast: RunAs Radio with myself and Richard Campbell appeared first on Group Policy Central. by Alan Burchill [...]

You can now check out the NZ Tech Podcast I recorded with Paul Spain as I mentioned in my previous post about my trip to New Zealand. I am also super [...]

[...] IIS to support large AD Token with Group Policy appeared first on Group Policy Central. by Alan Burchill [...]

[...] to remove cPassword values from Active Directory appeared first on Group Policy Central. by Alan Burchill [...]

[...] in Group Policy Fixed with MS15-011 & MS15-014 appeared first on Group Policy Central. by Alan Burchill [...]

[...] group policy support with the release of administrator templates. How to install administrative templates for Adobe Reader XI Step 1. Download and extract  the administrative templates from ftp:/ [...]

[...] Microsoft has recently released some new Administrative Templates that allow you to configure their newest software on down level Operating Systems. The [...]

[...] AOAC optimization” policy found under Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > Group Policy. However this new optimization is pretty much and [...]

[...] ’t want to). This setting can be found under User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar and of course only work on Windows 8 Consumer Preview. [...]

[...] 8 you can disable the “Configure Group Policy Caching” policy setting under Computer Configuration > Administrative Template > System > Group Policy. Warning: Doing this should [...]

[...] the “Maximum lifetime for user ticket Properties” setting under  Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Account Policies > Kerberos Policy. [...]

[...] the “Turn off Group Policy Client Service AOAC optimization” policy found under Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > Group Policy. However [...]

[...] there is now a new group policy setting called “Set user home folder” and is found under Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > User Profiles. One the [...]

[...] signing in or when all the apps on a screen are closed” and can be found under the User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar. Certainly [...]

[...] start them into Metro (but you prob don’t want to). This setting can be found under User Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Start Menu and Taskbar and of course only [...]

[...] targets the users that you want to enable/disable the power button for and then navigate to User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings  then right click Registry and go to New > [...]