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.

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 Object here.
As stated on the Microsoft Online Services Team Blog: This file is provided as-is and is not supported.  It has been tested and [...]

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
Some things it can manage:

Enables Sign In to remember the username of the last signed in user. This policy should be Enabled when your user’s Online Account Name should be displayed each time the Sign-In Client is launched.
Enables Sign In [...]

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 Editor (gpmc.msc), [...]

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], [...]