Comments for Group Policy Central

Comment on How to use Group Policy Preferences to Secure Local Administrator Groups by amatesi

amatesi — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:09:56 +0000

too bad there are no “OU Variables”..it could’ve saved a couple of extra GPOs.

Comment on Best Practice: How to apply a Group Policy Object to individual users or computer by fayework

fayework — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:52:22 +0000

Thanks. Very clear and consise instructions.

Comment on Best Practice: How to apply a Group Policy Object to individual users or computer by jav

jav — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:29:59 +0000

Thanks a lot, you have solve me a big problem.

Comment on How to use Group Policy to Allow or Block URL’s by Alan Burchill

Alan Burchill — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:12:53 +0000

Sorry… this would only work for Internet Explorer… in fact this option has now been removed from IE10 so it only applies to all IE Browser before IE9…. Best to implement this as a restriction on the proxy server

Comment on How to configuring IE Site Zone mapping using group policy without locking out the user by Per-Torben Sørensen

Per-Torben Sørensen — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:02:47 +0000

You’re welcome, I’m glad I could help.

Comment on How to use Group Policy to Allow or Block URL’s by Michael Plumley

Michael Plumley — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:56:13 +0000

I found that it only works for Internet Explorer. Is there a way for it to work with all browsers?

Comment on How to configuring IE Site Zone mapping using group policy without locking out the user by John Serko

John Serko — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:40:46 +0000

You nailed the problem – I was using a computer policy, not a user policy. As soon as a rebuilt it as a user policy, everything fell into place perfectly. Thanks for posting this, it was a huge timesaver!

Comment on Desired State Configuration via Powershell by JamesCruce

JamesCruce — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:44:20 +0000

Desired State Configuration via Powershell http://t.co/1Yk6madGnv (via @UFPoSH)

Comment on How to use Group Policy to Allow or Block URL’s by jen

jen — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 09:25:05 +0000

Thank you very much for the article. I will go through it and hopefully its applicable in my situation.

Comment on Best Practice: How to exclude individual users or computers from a Group Policy Object by FilipinoAmericanInKorea

FilipinoAmericanInKorea — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 04:22:22 +0000

You’ve only denied from being reapplied. Don’t you need to create another policy now to undo what was initially applied?

Comment on Best Practice: How to configure Group Policy to use Data Recovery Agents with “Bitlocker to Go” drives – Part 2 by Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:15:19 +0000

The image for step 4 has the checkbox in the wrong field (Basic EFS instead of EFS Recovery Agent). That may be why it’s not working for some…

Comment on How to configure Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection by Best Practice: Group Policy for Virtual Desktops Infrastructure (VDI)

Best Practice: Group Policy for Virtual Desktops Infrastructure (VDI) — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 03:40:03 +0000

[...] every time. I have written a VERY extensive blog post about User State Virtualisation called Best Practice: Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection (a.k.a. User State Virtualization). I strongly encourage you read this blog post as well if you are going to implement USV in VDI as [...]

Comment on Group Policy Setting of the Week 2 – Verbose vs normal status messages by Best Practice: Group Policy for Virtual Desktops Infrastructure (VDI)

Best Practice: Group Policy for Virtual Desktops Infrastructure (VDI) — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 03:39:48 +0000

[...] am a really big fan of configuring verbose status message’s (See Group Policy Setting of the Week 2 – Verbose vs normal status messages) as it gives the users the feeling that the computer is actually doing something rather than just [...]

Comment on Best Practice: Active Directory Structure Guidelines – Part 1 by Best Practice: Group Policy for Virtual Desktops Infrastructure (VDI)

Best Practice: Group Policy for Virtual Desktops Infrastructure (VDI) — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 03:39:26 +0000

[...] you a template that you can use in any part of your AD. If you have read my previous blog posts Best Practice: Active Directory Structure Guidelines – Part 1 and Best Practice: Group Policy Design Guidelines – Part 2 you may recognize that this [...]

Comment on Desired State Configuration via Powershell by alanburchill

alanburchill — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:50:06 +0000

Desired State Configuration via Powershell http://t.co/9hUpofnVxg

Comment on Best Practice: How to use Group Policy Preferences to change account Passwords by Best Practive: How to enable a disabled Local Administrator account offline in Windows 7 (even when using BitLocker)

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:50:28 +0000

[...] an article that explain a way to more securely apply the new password to all the computers (see How to use Group Policy Preferences to change account Passwords ) but even if you did this on a regular basis you would still need to tell all the IT support staff [...]

Comment on What are Group Policy Preferences by Best Practive: How to enable a disabled Local Administrator account offline in Windows 7 (even when using BitLocker)

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:45:19 +0000

[...] solution is to just enable the local administrator account and set a password in advanced using Group Policy Preferences (see below) so that you can use it when you need to however doing this has a few security [...]

Comment on Updated: How to make Adobe Reader more secure using Group Policy by Zewwy

Zewwy — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:47:22 +0000

I just came across this exact problem while trying to get this to work for 11.x versions of adobe. What i found was this was not working on a 64bit machine cause the reg key is moved slightly instead of HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe ARM\1.0\ARM it actually HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Adobe\Adobe ARM\1.0\ARM. You can still push the settings for 32 and 64 bit machine accordingly using the item-;ve; targeting under the Common Tab. Good luck!

Comment on Customising Windows 8.1 Start Screen Layout with Group Policy by Miha Pecnik

Miha Pecnik — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:44:58 +0000

Great, much needed indeed.

Comment on Customising Windows 8.1 Start Screen Layout with Group Policy by nathanburgess

nathanburgess — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:13:11 +0000

Customising Windows 8.1 Start Screen Layout with Group Policy – http://t.co/cXrBCn36TX @gjbell

Comment on Customising Windows 8.1 Start Screen Layout with Group Policy by sideshowtob

sideshowtob — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:51:23 +0000

Customising Windows 8.1 Start Screen Layout with Group Policy http://t.co/xiOq9tpc75 via @alanburchill

Comment on Customising Windows 8.1 Start Screen Layout with Group Policy by alanburchill

alanburchill — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:19:22 +0000

Customising Windows 8.1 Start Screen Layout with Group Policy http://t.co/rsHJft8Iqq

Comment on Windows 8.1 Business Features by Kent Frantzen

Kent Frantzen — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 08:18:09 +0000

det lyder godt, så kan det være firmaerne tager springet til Windows 8

Comment on Using Group Policy to configure Desktop Wallpaper (“Background”) by Best Practice: How to use Group Policy to configure Windows 7 Logon UI Background Wallpaper

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 05:20:43 +0000

[...] I posted my Best Practice: Using Group Policy to configure Desktop Wallpaper (“Background”) a few of you have asked for me to do a post showing how to configure the Windows 7 Logon UI [...]

Comment on How to enable Group Policy Preferences support for IE9 by How to implement Internet Explorer 10 Group Policy with Windows 7

How to implement Internet Explorer 10 Group Policy with Windows 7 — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 02:21:44 +0000

[...] I can confirm that the XML registry hack I previously posted at http://www.grouppolicy.biz/2011/03/how-to-enable-group-policy-preferences-support-for-ie9/ does still work with the IE 8 GPP setting if you set the MAX version to 11. However do [...]