Group Policy Central

Ever wanted to know how loopback group policy really worked. Well Rich Crandall on the CB5 Blog has just done a the first post in a three part series talking about how loopback policy is applied.

Check it out at CB5 Blog | Loopback Policy Processing Debug Series – Normal Mode

Jan Egil’s has just written a good blog post explaining how to use Power Shell with Group Policy Preferences to easily setup multiple printer connections. If you have ever had to make printer connections with Group Policy Preferences you will know that it is a real easy to copy a printer connection. However it is a real pain to then modify the printer path and targeting… again… and again… and again… and again… Definitely worth a read if you use Group Policy Preferences to manage your printer connection in your organisation.

Check out the article at Automate Group Policy Preferences printer-management using Windows PowerShell « Jan Egil`s Admin-Blog

Ever wondered why the behaviour of Group Policy Preferences Power Plan never worked the way you expected? Well Ned Pyle from Microsoft has written a really good article explaining this behaviour.

http://blogs.technet.com/askds/archive/2009/12/11/windows-xp-power-management-and-group-policy-preferences.aspx

My recent Group Policy showing how to apply different power plan’s in Windows using Group Policy during different times of the day has picked up some traction and it has now been re-blogged twice.

First mention was on the Green IT Strategy (see below)

See the whole article at http://www.greenitstrategy.com/blog/67-power-management/162-alan-burchill-how-to-use-group-policy-preferences-to-manage-windows-power-plans

And the second has been on the Microsoft Group Policy Team which has re-published my article in full… AWESOME!!!!

See the whole article at http://blogs.technet.com/grouppolicy/archive/2009/09/30/configuring-a-power-plan-with-group-policy-preferences-by-alan-burchill.aspx

Alan Burchill