Apr 11
Windows 7 RSAT, Windows 7 No Comments
Finally Microsoft released RSAT even for those who have Service Pack 1 installed.
As before you need to install the update and then select features in “Turn Windows features on or off”.
Download from here
Sep 15
PowerShell Grouppolicy, Powershell, Script 1 Comment
It’s soon time to start blog about using PowerShell to support your Group Policy environment but here’s a start from Group Policy Team blog from MS.
You can, if you want to, search for just about everything inside a gpo and here is something to prove it from a blog post from GP Team blog.
Check it out: http://blogs.technet.com/b/grouppolicy/archive/2010/09/14/more-on-searching-group-policy.aspx
Sep 15
Custom beta, Download, ie, internet explorer No Comments
The public BETA for Internet Explorer 9 has been released.
Download from MS here: http://bit.ly/bKSCPS
May 04
GP Preferences, Windows 7 action center, backup, GPO, GPP, Grouppolicy, Windows 7 3 Comments
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.
May 02
ADM, ADMX, Office 2010 ADM, ADMX, Download, Microsoft, Technet 4 Comments
Has been released in MS Download.
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).
Apr 29
GPO GPO, Grouppolicy, Troubleshooting 2 Comments
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… 
Apr 29
ADMX, Windows 7 GPMC, GPO, Group Policy Preferences, Preference, Script 3 Comments
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:
Hope someone benefits from this information.
Apr 27
ADM, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 ADM, GPO, KB, Support, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 1 Comment
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!
Apr 26
GPMC, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 GPMC, KB, SRP, Support, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 No Comments
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
Apr 26
ADMX, GPO GPO, Microsoft, MSDN No Comments
This is just one of those things that you need to share quickly.
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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