May 04
G JohanssonGP Preferences, Windows 7 action center, backup, GPO, GPP, Grouppolicy, Windows 7
Alan Burchill has written a blogpost about removing notification about backup from the action center in Windows 7.
Since the post shows what you can really do with GPP I think this was worth linking to direct.
How to use Group Policy to turn off the Backup Notification in the Windows 7 Actions Center
Check out his blog too while you’re at it.
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May 02
G JohanssonADM, ADMX, Office 2010 ADM, ADMX, Download, Microsoft, Technet
Has been released in MS Download.
Download
Technet resource
A reference file (in Excel format) for all settings you can get here.
ADML-files are still only for standard languages (de, en, es, fr, it, jp, kr, cn, tw).
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Download,
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Apr 29
G JohanssonGPO GPO, Grouppolicy, Troubleshooting
This is an “old” post from the Group Policy Team about Troubleshooting but it’s really good and something everyone should use as starting point when they wonder why their gpo didn’t work.
http://blogs.technet.com/grouppolicy/archive/2010/02/24/troubleshooting-group-policy.aspx
Use it and develop it further to add you “standard” checks to have your standard procedure.
We all need to troubleshoot Group Policies sooner or later… 
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Apr 29
G JohanssonADMX, Windows 7 GPMC, GPO, Group Policy Preferences, Preference, Script
This is a quite common question about Group Policy Preferences so I’ll post it here and maybe someone will benefit from the information.
Scenario:
Trying to create a shortcut to a fixed drive letter using Group Policy Preference that points to a location on the network. After login there is no shortcut created and if you look in eventlog you see an error “0×80070002 The system cannot find the file specified”. If you run GPupdate /Force the shortcut is created.
This is an issue where it’s trying to create the shortcut before the drive’s are connected and Windows can’t create new shortcuts to locations not connected.
Workarounds:
- Create the shortcut using UNC-path
- Create the drives and shortcuts using logonscript
- Create a scheduled task (using GPP) to run GPupdate after user logon or use logonscript to run GPupdate
Hope someone benefits from this information.
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Apr 27
G JohanssonADM, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 ADM, GPO, KB, Support, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2
A new Knowledge base has been released with a hotfix for solving problems if you still are using adm-templates in GPO and are using Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
When you do a settings report of a GPO which contains references to an adm-template (not admx-template) and for some reason this adm-template doesn’t exist in the default paths anymore (you may have cleaned them out) you get “Extra registry settings” in the report instead to show these settings.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;981704
Of course the better way is to convert the adm-template to an admx-template instead and use the central store!
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Apr 26
G JohanssonGPMC, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 GPMC, KB, SRP, Support, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2
Using Windows 7 or Server 2008 R2 when trying to see SRP settings in GPMC you get an error.
Microsoft has released a hotfix
Error message occurs when you use GPMC to view a software restriction Group Policy setting in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2: “An error has occurred while collecting data for Software Restriction Policies”
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981750
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Apr 26
G JohanssonADMX, GPO GPO, Microsoft, MSDN
This is just one of those things that you need to share quickly.
http://gps.cloudapp.net/
I think you will have it more easier to find your setting for a GPO here instead of trying to find it in GPO-editor.
Well done!
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Microsoft,
MSDN
Apr 16
G JohanssonADMX, Windows Server 2008 ADMX, Download, Windows Server 2008
MS has released ADMX RTM for you to download.
If you haven’t copied them from your Windows Server 2008 to SYSVOL for management download this package and move it into SYSVOL for all your administrators.
Instructions and everyhing is on the download page which you find here
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Download,
Windows Server 2008
Apr 14
G JohanssonGPO, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP Download, RSAT, StarterGPO
MS has released two packages of Starter GPO’s that you can download.
These Starter GPO’s are recommended settings for Windows XP and Windows Vista. It contains Settings for “Specialized Security— Limited Functionality (SSLF)” and “Enterprise Client (EC)”.
Of course you need RSAT to manage these Starter GPO’s
Download them here
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Mar 26
G JohanssonGPMC, GPO, Windows Server 2008 Download, Policy, Preference, RSAT, Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista
Finally MS has released the new RSAT for Windows Vista.
This means that you won’t need to remote control your Windows Server 2008 to handle Group Policy Preference, you can now do it directly from your management station instead using these tools.
Don’t forget to install Service Pack 1 for Vista first (it’s mandatory).
Windows Vista Service Pack 1
RSAT for Windows Vista x86
RSAT for Windows Vista x64
Knowledgebase Article
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