Group Policy Setting of the week is my attempt to cover some of the simpler Group Policy settings that I have found useful or are commonly used. Each week I will focus on a single setting and give a talk a little about how it can be used in a corporate environment.

Update: I am no longer doing a group policy setting of the week, but below is an archive of the previous posting for your reference.

Below is a list all the settings of the week in chronological order:

• Group Policy Setting of the Week 1 – How to remove old user profiles after X days
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 2 – Verbose vs normal status messages
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 3 – Group Policy Preferences Power Plans
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 4 – Shared Printer
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 5 – Add Logoff to the Start Menu
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 6 – Exclude directories in roaming profile
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 7 – (umm err… on holidays back soon)
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 8 – Group Policy refresh interval for computers
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 9 – Allow Automatic Updates immediate installation
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 10 – Remove Default Programs link from the Start menu
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 11 – Prompt for password on resume from hibernate /suspend
• Group Policy setting(s) of the Week 12 – Prevent changing desktop background & Desktop Wallpaper
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 13 – Files
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 14 – Prevent access to registry editing tools
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 15 – Add the Administrator security group to roaming users profiles
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 16 – Prevent Roaming Profile changes from propagating to the server
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 17 – Background upload of a roaming user profile’s registry file while user is logged on
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 18 – Allow file download (Internet Explorer)
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 19 – Set roaming profile path for all users logging onto this computer
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 20 – Exclude File form being cached
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 22 – Configure Background Sync (offline files)
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 22 – Enable Transparent Caching (Offline Files)
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 22b – DNS Servers
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 23 – Outlook 2003 RPC Encryption
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 24 – Remove Properties from the Computer icon context menu
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 25 – Remove the Action Center icon
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 26 – Do not automatically make redirected folders available offline
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 26b – Do not allow Windows Messenger to be Run
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 27 – Turn off numerical sorting in Windows Explorer
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 28 – Maximum wait time for Group Policy scripts
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 29 – Assign a default domain for logon
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 32 – Prevent changing mouse pointers
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 33 – Set up a work schedule to limit the maximum network bandwidth used for BITS background transfers
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 34 – Do not allow Windows Media Center to run
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 35 – Display information about previous logons during user logon
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 36 – Turn off Windows Start-up Sound
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 37 – Change Start Menu power button
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 38 – Remove pinned programs from the Taskbar
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 39 – Always use custom logon background
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 40 – Remove Homegroup link from Start Menu
• Group Policy Setting of the Week 41 – Prevent the computer from joining a Homegroup