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Group Policy Hotfix for Defender Mitigation Options Error

Just a quick note that Microsoft has recently release a hot fix KB4338819 that fixes and issue with the Mitigation option. This is a Windows Defender setting that can be found under the Administrative Templates>Computers>System>Mitigation Options setting. The fix is described as: Addresses an issue that may cause the Mitigation Options Group Policy client-side extension to fail during GPO processing….

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New Group Policy KB Articles

I mentioned last week a few new Group Policy related Knowledge base articles that were just released / updated. Well Scott Goad from one of my favourite blogs (Ask the Directory Service Team) just published a round up of all the Active Directory KB articles from 6th Feb to 19th Feb . So for your convenience I have extracted the…

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New Group Policy Hotfix’s

Microsoft have recently released a couple of hotfixes relating to Group Policy. As you are probably aware there are a number of Group Policy related hotfixes in Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 which is about to be released (on Feb 22nd 2011) however these two particular patches are listed as being required even for Service…

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KB978098 Focus: Large “Folder Redirection” issue

Microsoft recently released KB978098 which explains an issues with folder redirection when using the Advanced folder redirection setting (see image below). The advanced setting of this policy is used when you want to redirect users to different locations based on security group location. This is a very helpful if you have a large number of users in the same site…

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KB274274 Focus: The Cross-Forest program deployment problem using Group Policy

I have decided to start posting about some specific group policy related KB’s that I have found useful in my time. I will make these posting whenever I come across them so they I will only post them on a semi regular basis. This KB Focus is KB274274 which talks about a problem you will encounter if you are trying…

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