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• Group Policy Security Filtering

  I hear it all the time! You can't apply GPO's to groups or users. GPO's are applied to local PC's, sites, domains and OU's (in that order I might add), but not to groups or users. Well my faithful reader, you can apply them to groups and users too, with Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:19 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Group Policy

• Force Group Policy Updates

  Group policy is a powerful feature that allows you to secure your domain, control the desktop enviroment, deploy applications and more. There are times when a policy has been edited and needs to be forced. With Windows XP came a new tool called GPUpdate. Read More... Posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:46 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Group Policy

• Quick Tip: Speed Up GPO Processing

  One thing that can speed up Group Policy processing and logins, is to disable the User or Computer portion of a GPO if there are no settings being applied. As an example, if you have a GPO for your an OU that contains only computer accounts, you can disable Read More... Posted Monday, October 03, 2005 6:47 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Group Policy

• Troubleshooting Software Deployment

  Using a group policy to deploy software is a god send to those who administer larger Active Directory domains. Imagine having to run around to 100 PC's to install a program, then do it again to update the program, then at least one more time to uninstall Read More... Posted Monday, August 22, 2005 8:46 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Group Policy

• Creating Custom ADM Templates

  Administrative Templates (ADM) files contain the settings that are applied by a group policy. They are simple files that can be edited or created with a text editor, like Notepad, and you can manage options that are not normally covered in the default Read More... Posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 8:11 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Group Policy

• Publishing Applications with ZAP Files

  In previous articles I have gone over publsihing applications with Group Policy and assigning applications with Group Policy. Both procedures require applications packaged as MSIs but what if you have an EXE? Non-MSI pacakges can be published to users Read More... Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 7:35 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Group Policy

• Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection

  One of the questions I hear often is how to configure roaming profiles and/or folder redirection. The bigggest benefit to roaming profiles and folder redirection is when you replace a user’s workstation for an upgrade or repair. When the user logs on Read More... Posted Sunday, May 15, 2005 7:44 AM by rodney.buike | 1 Comments Filed under: Group Policy

• Assigning Applications with Group Policy

  Assigning an application is a similar process to publishing, but has a few other options you can select. When assigning an application, you can assign it too a user or computer, and you can automatically install it upon logon. To start lets create a new Read More... Posted Friday, May 13, 2005 6:00 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Group Policy

• Publishing Applications With Group Policy

  Imagine having to install an application to 1000 computers manually, then upgrading that application in a few months! Not fun, luckily we can publish (or assign) applications via group policy. Publishing an application to a user (you can't publish to Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 11, 2005 7:55 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Group Policy

• Restoring Windows 2003 Group Policies

  So you set up the Default Domain Policy (or Domain Controllers) and now its hit the fan and you need to get back to the defaults fast! There is a workaround for Windows 2000, but in Windows Server 2003 we can use Dcgpofix which is located in %systemroot%\Repair Read More... Posted Monday, May 02, 2005 8:52 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Group Policy

• Windows 2000 and 2003 Password Complexity

  By default, Windows 2003 Server requires user passwords to meet minimum set complexity requirements including password lengths. A lot of people like short, simple, easy to remember passwords and these just wont work in a Windows 2003 Server unless this Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 22, 2005 7:44 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Group Policy