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AGPM Part 5: Delegating permission to Review/Edit GPO’s in AGPM

This post is part of a series of posts about Advanced Group Policy Management. If you want to see the other post in this series you can use the links below: Introduction to Advanced Group Policy Management (a.k.a AGPM) v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management Client v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) Server…

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AGPM Part 4: How to configure the AGPM client via Group Policy to automatically connect to the AGPM server

This post is part of a series of posts about Advanced Group Policy Management. If you want to see the other post in this series you can use the links below: Introduction to Advanced Group Policy Management (a.k.a AGPM) v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management Client v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) Server…

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AGPM Part 3: How to install Advanced Group Policy Management Server v4

This post is part of a series of posts about Advanced Group Policy Management. If you want to see the other post in this series you can use the links below: Introduction to Advanced Group Policy Management (a.k.a AGPM) v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management Client v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) Server…

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AGPM Part 2: How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) Client v4

This post is part of a series of posts about Advanced Group Policy Management. If you want to see the other post in this series you can use the links below: Introduction to Advanced Group Policy Management (a.k.a AGPM) v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management Client v4 How to install the Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) Server…

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AGPM Part 1: Introduction to Advanced Group Policy Management (a.k.a AGPM) v4

In this series of post I will show you how to install and user Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) v4 tool which part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimisation Pack  (MDOP). You qualify to use AGPM (and all the MDOP) tools if you have a subscription advantage (SA) licence agreement with Microsoft. The whole suite of MDOP tools are very handy…

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How to use Group Policy to enable the “Search Companion” as the default search in Windows XP

Windows Desktop Search 4.0 is a fantastic local search engine for Windows XP that allows users to quickly search all their local files and network file servers. This is also a requirement for anyone that want to use the instant search feature in Outlook 2007 as it utilises this search engine to perform an index of your inbox. However as…

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Thank You

For the first time Tuesday 09/06/2010 this web site it a mile store of over 1000 visitors in one day (WOOHOO!!!). The gain in popularity of this site from its begging’s only 6 months ago has been totally amazing. I would like to thank everyone who has visited this site and especially those who keep coming back. I hope that…

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Group Policy Setting of the Week 28 – Maximum wait time for Group Policy scripts

This weeks Group Policy setting should be used in environments where you still use a logon script. While I implore you stop using logon scripts (see http://www.ihatelogonscripts.com ) they are still out there for a majority of customers and as such still need to be properly managed. This setting is called “Maximum wait time for Group Policy scripts” but it…

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