At work we will start testing Windows 7 within the IS department Q2 next year. Our current AD forest is still in mixed mode 2000!!! So I have some cleanup and upgrades todo on that before I start working about windows 7 GPO’s. I just need to retire and move the roles of the old [...]
Posts Tagged ‘GPO’
Windows 7 – Do I need to change my Active Directory for new Group Policy features?
October 31st, 2009
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Slow logon? Look at these items
September 25th, 2009
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The Directory Services Team at MS has wrong two very good blog post about troubleshooting slow logons for workstations.
Here’s a clip from So you have a slow logon…? (Part 1)
Outdated drivers: Your network interface card (NIC) should use the latest drivers installed.
Outdated operating system (OS) patch level: Your operating system should have the latest [...]
links for 2008-09-30
September 30th, 2008
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Configuring Group Policy for Offline Files: Group Policy
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GPanswers.com :: View topic – Folder Redirection / Offline Files / Synchronization manager
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links for 2008-09-11
September 11th, 2008
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Fitbit – Automatically Track Your Fitness and Sleep
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Delegating Monitoring-Stopping-Starting services on Servers
July 9th, 2008
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Thank you so much Jorge and the activedir.org mailing list. I’ve been trying to figure out how to get a junior admin access to restart the print spooler on a windows 2003 SP1 box for over a month.
Delegating permissions to manage services on servers is not the easiest thing to do. You can do it [...]
Top 10 Security Settings to make directly after Installing Active Directory
May 12th, 2008
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Most of these tips are very basic. But we all need to start somewhere.
The initial settings that you should make to get Active Directory secure for your network before you dive into setting up the entire structure.
1.Create an Administrative Account for Yourself 2.Set a Complex and Long Password for the [...]
Group Policy Performance and Security Policy
January 18th, 2008
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Here’s a great article about group policy. I didn’t realize that you could set ACL’s on files using GPO’s that’s sweet. To bad the Event Viewer for Operational Logs isn’t available for XP or 2003.
If you haven’t already seen it, check out my article in this month’s TechNet Magazine on "Optimizing Group Policy [...]
Twitter Updates for 2008-01-07
January 7th, 2008
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Yes, I’m having a case of the Mondays #
Cleaning up GPO’s Too many people with access since windows 2000. #
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Twitter Updates for 2007-12-19
December 19th, 2007
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long morning, PRI issues,vbs script fun, and more #
GPOs in mutliple AD domains in the same forest are fun #
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XP Remote Desktop (How to enable and GPO setup)
December 7th, 2007
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To take over the control the remote XP computer, click the Take Control on the top right. If you can’t take the control, make sure Allow helpers to remotely control the computer under Offer Remote Assistance Setting is enabled. By default, Offer Remote Assistance Settings is disabled. To do enable it, open Group Policy by [...]
