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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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Delayed logons for particular user
I have a user whose logon is taking an extremely long time.  I've checked her DNS settings and made sure that it only points to our internal DNS server, that seemed to fix it the first time she logged... more
Monday, September 08, 2008 9:20:36 AM
FullArmor - Admx Editor crashes
Hi there,We want to create custom admx files. We wanted to use Full Armors ADMX Editor (which is free to download from Microsoft). But this tool isn't working correct (Mybee the problem is between cha... more
Monday, September 08, 2008 4:45:51 AM
Central admx Files outside SYSVOL
Hi there,Is there a way to tell GPMC to look at a specified location for admx files. We want to centrallize the admx files, but not in the sysvol share.RegardsRomanRW... more
Monday, September 08, 2008 4:35:29 AM
User can change profile type
Hi there,Users an chang their profile type from "roaming" to "local". Is there any policy or registry setting, where i can prevent the users from changeing their profile settings.N... more
Monday, September 08, 2008 4:29:34 AM
same user logon picture for all users
Hi there,There exists a policy for setting "Use default Logon Picture for all Users" (Computer Configuration - Policies - Administrative Templates - Controlpanel - User AccountsIf we set thi... more
Monday, September 08, 2008 4:23:49 AM

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