Lilia Gutnik from the Group Policy Team at Microsoft (a.k.a. @superlilia ) recently recorded some video’s with Adam Bomb from TechNet Edge. This video shows a cool new Group Policy troubleshooting tool called GPLogview which is a very useful to decipher those very long and complicated group policy event log’s that Windows give you out of the box.
For more information check out Group Policy Team Blog Article at GPLogView and you can download the tool from from Microsoft Download Center at GPLogView
Ned Pyle from the Active Directory Service team has just done a super post to the Ask the Directory Services Team called Post-Graduate AD Studies. This is a collection of links to pretty much every AD/Group Policy related TechNet article known to man. Definitely a post that you will want to bookmark to use as a reference whenever you have any AD or Group Policy related problems or questions.
Below is a list of all the Group Policy related articles that are listed in the post:
Jeremy Moskowitz (fellow Group Policy MVP) has just appeared in an interview with Matt Hester on Bytes by TechNet web site.
They covered how IT Professionals start with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, why they need to know about Group Policy and what is new with Group Policy in Windows 7. Jeremy also highlighted some tips for his IT Pro peers related to some components of Group Policy including the Central Store.
Check out the video below:
This video should work with Silverlight or HTML5 video supported browsers.
This year Microsoft are now making available for everyone the videos screen cast from the TechEd USA conference on the TechEd web site. So if you attended TechEd USA this year but didn’t get to see all the sessions or if you just missed out on going all together you can now check out all the session at http://www.msteched.com
For your convince I have embedded the Group Policy specific video’s below.
Tom Archer just wrote a blog post about four new sample C# programs that interface with the Group Policy Management Console to perform general group policy tasks in Active Directory. These are some very usefull sample if you are looking at writing your onw applications for automaitcing Group Policy object tasks.
Group Policy Preferences have been out for about 3 years now and so there have been a number web posts about what they are and how they are implemented. So I have created a list of links to other articles that from the Group Policy Team Blog and ohter places that help explain what Preference are and how you can use them in your environemtn.
Group Policy Preferences are a heap of new Group Policy settings that were released with Windows Server 2008 that allows IT administrators to pretty much do anything they want to configured computers in an corporate environmnet. Preferences only require a Windows 2000 Active Directory and they need to be manageded from a minumum of Windows Vista/2008 however they can be applied to Windows XP Service Pack 2 (or greater) workstations.
