If you have ever configured you Internet Explorer setting via the “Internet Explorer Maintenance” group policy setting you might be wondering however to remove these setting now you found a few easier ways to do the same thing. Well its not all that  obvious but if you go to User Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings  you can then right…

Microsoft have now started to release definition updates to Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) via WSUS. This now allows any corporate that is running WSUS to centrally deploy pattern updated from a single server. While most corporation probably will not have MSE deployed in their environment it might still be worth while to enable to ensure any fringe cases of computers…

BeyondTrust has just come out with a white paper entitled “90% of Critical Microsoft Windows 7 Vulnerabilities are Mitigated by Eliminating Admin Rights”. This paper has some very interesting statistics around the percentages of security issues that are mitigate if a users is not running as administrator. • 90% of Critical Windows 7 vulnerabilities reported to date • 100% of…

This weeks setting of the week is second is another one of the new Windows 7 offline file settings called “Configure Background Sync” which can be found under Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Networks > Offline Files.  This setting allows you to configured the new Windows 7 feature that background sync’s offline file when a computer is…

Yesterday I was absolutely thrilled to find out that I was awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. This is truly a fantastic honour to be recognised for all my contributions to the Group Policy community both on this online and at speaking engagements. This is certainly my most treasured professional achievement that I have ever received and has certainly given…

This weeks setting is a new configuration setting in Offline Files called “Exclude files form being cached”. This setting can be used by IT administrators to block any un-wanted file types from being made available for offline use. You can find this setting under Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Network > Office Files and it will only…

One of the powerful feature of Group Policy that have been around since its inception has been the ability to deploy and manage MSI based applications. Once senario you might find yourself in due to increasing popularity of Windows x64 is how do you deploy the right version of an application to your SOE however you are still running a…

I have seen an number of posts form IT Administrators on the Microsoft Group Policy forums asking how prevent their users from connecting to a wireless network. Maybe it is because they have an open WIFI network on the floor above that users keep connecting to so they can by pass the proxy server URL restrictions or they don’t want…