Tag Archives: GP

Removing the “Do you trust this printer” message box

Posted by dave on May 6, 2013 No comments

When changing printers recently  I noticed when testing that users would receive the following message: This was a bit of a pain so I set about looking to remove this via Group Policy. The option I settle on was documented here, but basically involved adding the following …

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Group Policy Drive Maps not working in Windows 8 & Server 2012

Posted by dave on February 2, 2013 No comments

I noticed recently that Group Policy drive maps were not being applied to any Windows 8 or Server 2012 boxes. These machines were all in the correct OU’s but it just wasn’t working. After a bit or research, turning off the ‘Reconnect’ …

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Deploy Flash, Acrobat and FireFox MSI’s via Group Policy

Posted by dave on July 28, 2010 No comments

It was about time that I get back to rolling out software via GP, so all existing and new machines all have the same up to date software. Certain packages that all the machines require are Flash Player and Acrobat …

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Remove shutdown but allow restart via Group Policy

Posted by dave on July 27, 2010 6 comments

I’ve noticed that all my users are all very green and keep turning their PC’s off. That’s great and all except the windows updates, virus scans etc. are all scheduled to run at night. So, if the PC is off, …

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Rolling out Microsoft Forefront Client Security via Group Policy

Posted by dave on July 26, 2010 No comments

This is quick guide on how to roll out MFCS to your machines via Group Policy and also change and lock down the registry settings via GP. From your copy of MFCS, extract all the files from the zip and …

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Turn off the Sidebar in Group Policy 2008

Posted by dave on July 26, 2010 No comments

The settings can be found under ‘Turn off desktop Gadgets’ rather than ‘turn off windows Sidebar’. Nagivate to: Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Desktop Gadgets

Using PsExec and SpecOps to Force Group Policy Updates via ADUC

Posted by dave on July 23, 2010 6 comments

Group Policy. It’s pretty awesome, you can fix and everything via few little clicks, but, you can also break everything with a few little clicks so care must be taken. I generally setup test OU’s and stick one or two …

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Creating the admin$ Share via Group Policy

Posted by dave on July 23, 2010 No comments

This was going to be part of another post but I figured it was pretty useful, so it got its own. Baiscally, if you don’t have the admin$ share setup then you can apply it via the group policy by …

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Displaying Machine Name and IP address on a Users Desktop

Posted by dave on July 16, 2010 No comments

Since adding VNC back on to all the machines, the next stage was to know which machine to connect to when there is a problem. This brought me back to some software I used years ago called BGinfo. This basically …

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