Posts Tagged ‘Group Policies

A presentation given by Lilia Gutnik @ TechEd 2009 Australia. This one presents the Windows Server 2008 R2 Group Policy changes. Click here to watch it I love the enthusiasm of Lilia Gutnik, she really makes this presentation interesting and fun to watch.

* update: the adm file mentioned in this post isn’t available anymore, see comment (at least I did not find him, if you did please post a comment) If your want to manage the settings inside de Microsoft Online Sign-In Client (used with BPOS) through Group Policies, you can download a Active Directory Group Policy [...]

A Group Policy Object for managing the users sign-in Client Application (used in Microsoft Online) http://blogs.technet.com/msonline/archive/2009/02/09/microsoft-online-sign-in-client-adm-group-policy-object.aspx /* 26.05.2010: I just got noticed in the comments that the link isn’t working anymore, thx Darren*/ Some things it can manage: Enables Sign In to remember the username of the last signed in user. This policy should be [...]

Problem: I needed to disable a menu item in Excel 2007. Resolution: First of all download the ADM(X) templates for Office 2007 (keep in mind I am using server 2008). You can download them here Extract it to a folder, and then copy the contents of the admx folder to C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions Open your Group Policy [...]

When you’re creating a Group Policy Preference, you can use Environment Variables. A cool thing is that when you press F3, a window will open which will display all kind of Environment Variables you can use. Wanna give it a try? Open Group Policy Management Editor Browse to [User Configuration], [Preferences], [Windows Settings], [Folders] Create [...]