Comments on: Best Practice: Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2

By: Alan Burchill

Alan Burchill — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:54:08 +0000

@auteched @kittenstix I have heaps of MS references in this doc http://t.co/rI2krnW7

By: Steve's Reading

Steve's Reading — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:53:44 +0000

Best Practice: Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2 http://t.co/l3L0hfWF (via Instapaper)

By: Daniel Westerdale

Daniel Westerdale — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:40:18 +0000

Best Practice: Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2 http://t.co/uh1EE47z via @alanburchill, Good stuff on GPOs.

By: Rich Prescott

Rich Prescott — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:48:36 +0000

Best Practice: Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2 http://t.co/Smrap3Da via @alanburchill

By: Coquin

Coquin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:54:37 +0000

Thanks … what a nice job..!

By: Phillip Scott

Phillip Scott — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:59:48 +0000

Awesome Article – Best Practice: Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2 http://t.co/i8ryvTn via @alanburchill

By: Chris Brown

Chris Brown — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:00:47 +0000

Best Practice: Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2 http://t.co/tajoZrW via @alanburchill

By: Alan Burchill

Alan Burchill — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:40:52 +0000

@chrisbrownie no. But you could just print this post http://bit.ly/iV16ad

By: Alan Burchill

Alan Burchill — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:24:17 +0000

@AdamFowler_IT then check out this link http://bit.ly/iV16ad in short it is always a balance…

By: michael

michael — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:58:15 +0000

Are any of these methods speed affected? Im trying to get to the bottom of a speed issue in what is likely a GPO and GPP issue. I am trying to find some info on the speed effects of the various components and methods used? Any pointers?

By: Trond E Haavarstein

Trond E Haavarstein — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:51:19 +0000

Best Practice: Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2 http://t.co/7zRjn4a < Highly Recommended if you've missed it

By: Robin Frousheger

Robin Frousheger — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:54:41 +0000

Wow. Just excellent. I <3 @AlanBurchill's AD/GP Best Practice guides. Recommended 4 all AD admins. http://bit.ly/9XHQl7 http://bit.ly/cJ8AvN

By: Alan Burchill

Alan Burchill — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:08:51 +0000

Updated: Best Practice: Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2 http://bit.ly/d69GmJ #mvpbuzz

By: Group Policy Center » Blog Archive » Best Practice:Active Directory Structure Guidelines – Part 1

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:49:54 +0000

[...] first talk about designing you Active Directory Organisation Unit structure and then in part 2 (Best Practice: Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2) I will discuss some more ideas for applying Group Policy to the OU [...]

By: Alan Burchill

Alan Burchill — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:17:09 +0000

@Alex Jeremy has a fair point… I will have to chat with him when I see him at teched Australia next month… However I would also add that disabling part of a GPO is a good way to ensure that other GPO admins don’t wrongly add setting to parts of GPO that should not be configured….at the end of the day this is just good housekeeping so either way won’t make a huge difference

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By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:58:33 +0000

According to Jeremy Moskowitz there isn’t any huge performance gain, furthermore from a troublehsooting perspective having parts of the GPO disabled can make troubleshooting a bit harder (just in case you had forgotten that you had things disabled). I tend to agree with that statement.

Anyway, this is a GREAT post Alan (as always).

By: Alan Burchill

Alan Burchill — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:58:09 +0000

Ah yes…. my bad…

By: Alan Burchill

Alan Burchill — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:11:34 +0000

Agreed… I have never noticed any performance gain from disabling the un-used portion of the GPO… I still do it however as i just think its good practice to turn off something that is un-used. I could imagine however if you hade many 100′s or 1000′s of GPO’s that this could make a difference… But almost always i would refer you to the “More setting (not policies) = Slower SOE” guideline as the first thing to look at when trying to improved performance.

By: Mike Kline

Mike Kline — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:28:55 +0000

Good series Alan! The one I’m always torn on is disabling the user or computer portions of a GPO if not in use for a performance gain. Is there an actual gain there? The reason I ask is because Darren also wrote about that in this TechNet magazine article

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.01.gpperf.aspx

After reading that I stopped disabling the unused portions a few years ago and I have noticed no performance hit.

Thanks

Mike

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:53:03 +0000

WMI filter have only been available since Windows XP, they weren’t available on Windows 2000

By: William Lauvenberg

William Lauvenberg — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:45:20 +0000

RT @alanburchill Best Practice: Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2 http://bit.ly/d69GmJ

By: GroupPolicy Center

GroupPolicy Center — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:59:40 +0000

Blog Post: Best Practice: Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2 http://bit.ly/dACQSF