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The Clash of the GPO Links

Someone emailed a question to the GPOGUY GPTalk mailing list today that I thought was worth chatting about. The question pertained to disappearing Group Policy links. Namely, he had a situation where links to GPOs would periodically disappear from Active...

Significant Group Policy Announcement by MS

Yesterday at TechEd in Barcelona, Microsoft made a slew of announcements. And buried in those announcements was the note about Group Policy Preferences. This is the name Microsoft has given to the DesktopStandard PolicyMaker extensions that they acquired last...

The Minasi Forum Meeting

Many of you probably know who Mark Minasi is. Mark’s been writing and speaking on Windows for a very long time. Mark is a good friend as well and a really good guy. He maintains a very active Forum, on which I moderate the Group Policy section. If you...

more on the removal of GPMC from Vista, SP1

I’ve received a number of comments and have seen a number of blog postings subsequent to my blog posting about this topic. One of the reasons I mentioned that it was probably not a good idea to have GPMC on every system was that inherently anyone that could...

Group Policy Talks at NetPro’s DEC 2008!

For those of you who have been to NetPro’s DEC conference, you know that this is just about the best AD and MS Identity Management conference there is. Well, Group Policy is not left out at this year’s upcomfing DEC 2008 in Chicago (*TGINV!). For the 3rd...

Survey on future of Group Policy

Here’s your chance to contribute some input to the future of Group Policy! The Microsoft Group Policy product team asked me to post this. They need input in the next two weeks so if you’re so inclined, have at it! The Microsoft Group Policy team...