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Windows Server Group Policy

Group Policy and the Active Directory services infrastructure enable IT administrators to automate one-to-many management of users and computers—simplifying administrative tasks and reducing IT costs. Administrators can efficiently implement security settings, enforce IT policies, and distribute software consistently across a given site, domain, or range of organizational units.

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Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows Vista with SP1
Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) enables IT administrators to manage roles and features in Windows Server 2008 from a remote comput... more
Monday, August 18, 2008 2:30:00 PM
Manage Microsoft Windows with Group Policy Preferences
Group Policy preferences enable administrators to configure, deploy, and manage greater numbers of operating system and application settings. Group Po... more
Monday, August 18, 2008 2:30:00 PM

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Passwords in Group Policy Preferences
Have you ever wanted to configure a preference item to include a specific user name and password? You can do so in several types of preference items, but if you are working in a high-security environm... more
GPTeam
Monday, August 04, 2008 7:58:00 PM
Share your feedback on managing Windows Servers with the Group Policy Team!
The Group Policy team at Microsoft would like to hear from you about how you currently manage your servers and server-based applications and how you’d like manage them in the future.  Please take... more
GPTeam
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:08:00 AM
Extending Group Policy Preferences
The Group Policy preference extension is designed to allow developers to extend the Application preference item. For those applications that are currently unsupported by Group Policy preferences, you... more
GPTeam
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 11:26:00 AM
You will survive
Now available: the Group Policy Documentation Survival Guide. Print it out, laminate it, tape it to your wall. You will survive. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=117638... more
GPTeam
Monday, April 28, 2008 9:45:00 AM
Wunderbar! Perfetto! Maravilloso! Prachtig!
Molto faboloso!  As of this morning, the Microsoft Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) pack is available for download in the following languages, in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. La... more
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:43:00 PM

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Setting a default workgroup dictionary file location by group policy preferences (Office 2007 on Vista/Server 2008)
I'd like to use Group Policy Preferences to have all students use a shared default custom dictionary. I can find settings for file locations for workgroup templates, but not for dictionaries. Is this... more
Sunday, September 07, 2008 7:20:54 PM
Pushing out security group to clients
I am fairly new to winserver.  However do I push security group, let's say domain admins to client's local group account using group policy?  Is this possible or I have to manually add it to each clie... more
Saturday, September 06, 2008 2:41:57 PM
Trusted Site GPO Being Performed
2003 domain , need gpo as stated for terminal server users Whenever I enable this the users trusted sites gets grayed out. can someone please explain to me why its doing this and if I can gpo trusted... more
Friday, September 05, 2008 10:04:59 AM
configuring roaming profiles on windows server 2008
Hello everybody,I am facing problem with roaming profiles of users on windows server 2008, I have configured the domain, active directory also created the OU and applied the poicies on users wich work... more
Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:07:39 PM
Updating Software Deployed via Group Policy
Apologies in advance if this is an easy question (I haven't been able to find the answer yet).I deployed an MSI package I put together myself (company didn't provide one, so I created one) to deploy a... more
Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:29:34 PM

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