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GPLogView

Aug 02

G JohanssonGPO, Windows Vista CodePlex, Event log, GPLogView, GPO, Vista No Comments

When troubleshooting Group Policy there has been some ways to do it but there is a new tool introduced with Windows Vista to make it even easier. This tool has been around for some time but I don’t think too many knows about it yet.

The tool is named GPLogView and it benefits from the new and improved logging for Group Policy in Windows Vista.

Read more about this to at the Group Policy Team Blog
Read about the monitor mode which I think is a nice feature.

Download the tool here.

Edit: This tool has also been released as an open source project so you may download the code from here if you need to alter the code for any reason.

ADMX Migrator

Aug 02

G JohanssonADMX, GPO ADMX, GPO No Comments

If you want to use your own created adm-files in Windows Vista you would need to convert them into ADMX-format.

Microsoft has provided us with a tool for this named ADMX Migrator where you can migrate your adm-template to the new xml-format.

One great thing with this tool is that you can change the templates after migration (or even create new ones) without the need to open them in a text-editor or something else for editing. Another purpose may be to migrate Microsoft’s own Office 2007 adm-files to the new format since they have only released in the old format.

Download the tool here and start migrate your policies today.

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Fine-Grained Password Policy

Aug 01

G JohanssonActive Directory, GPO, Windows Server 2008 Fine-Grained, GPO, Password, Policy 2 Comments

As my first post in my new blog I’m not going to write something myself.
I will just link to another post written by Christoffer Andersson who has created a tool for admin a new function “Fine-Grained Password Policies” introduced in Windows Server 2008.

This tool is still at Beta so if you can please help him out trying the tool, I know I will.

See his post here: http://blogs.chrisse.se/blogs/chrisse/archive/2007/07/14/fine-grain-password-policy-tool-beta-1-is-ready.aspx