Year: 2010
TechEd 2010–Australia / New Zealand
Group Policy Setting on the week will be taking a break for the next 2 weeks as I will be speaking at TechEd Australia and New Zealand. If you are lucky enough to be coming to either event then please come to my one or both of Group Policy sessions. Australia Session When CLI303 – Unlock the Awesome Power…
How to configure Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection
Read Me First: If you are using Folder Redirection with Windows 7 in your organisation then I would definitely recommend that you check my other blog post about a pretty nasty Folder redirection bug and how to fix it at Disappearing Folder Redirection Issues with Windows 7 Update: I have new blog post that describes the new “Primary Computer” feature in…
Group Policy Setting of the Week 39 – Always use custom logon background
This week setting of the week allows you to prefer a custom logon background image in Windows 7. This setting is called “Always use custom logon background†and can be found under Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > Logon. Microsoft brought back the option to easily customise the logon background in Windows 7 as this was…
Group Policy Hotfix Round Up
In the July 29 to August 12th Hot-fix release for Windows 6/7 there have been a number of Group Policy related hotfixes released. As far as I can tell none of these hotfixes are listed as being in Windows 7 Service Pack 1 that is currently in beta (see The complete list of Group Policy Hotfix’s in Windows 7/2008 R2…
AuTechHeads Coalface Tech Podcast
Last week I was a guest on the Australia IT Pro podcast called the “Coalface Tech Podcast†where I spoke on the topic of Group Policy. I was joined by regular team members, including Matt Marlor, Steve Molkentin, Simone Bennett and Nicholas Rayner and we talked about pretty much all things Group Policy, including preferences, AGPM and I even when…
How to use Group Policy to control Services
Services are programs that are configured to run in the background of a Windows computer weather or not there is a users that is logged on. They are essential part of windows and are essential to the operation of any windows computers. Without services computer could not perform automatic updates, run scheduled tasks or even connect to a file share….
Group Policy Setting of the Week 38 – Remove pinned programs from the Taskbar
The setting of the week this week disables one of the features in Windows 7 that allowed users to pin programs to the taskbar. This option will be handy if you are in an environment where you want to prevent users from customising the taskbar such as a kiosk or library style computer. The setting can be found under User…
Group Policy Setting of the Week 37 – Change Start Menu power button
This week setting of the week is called “Change Start Menu power button†which allows you to configured the start menu shutdown button in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. You can find this setting under User Configurations>Policies>Administrative Templates>StartMenu and Taskbar. If you have setup your computer to support Hybrid-Sleep then you should consider configuring this option to help…
