by Alex Verboon
As anounced by Microsoft last week on their IEBlog Internet Explorer will start blocking out of date ActiveX controls For managed environments there are updated administrative templates for Internet Explorer to control the behaviour of the ActiveX blocking feature. Although Read More …
Update: 22. August 2014: I have posted an updated version of the script here. During his Group Policy: Notes from the Field – Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting session at TechEd Group Policy MVP Jeremy Moskowitz demonstrates how to filter the Read More …
On April 28th 2014 Microsoft finally released an fix for the Office 2013 SP1 Office customization tool as the version released with SP1 caused some issues with Lync 2013 and OneDrive for Business. But there’s more in this update.A few Read More …
As announced on the Office IT Pro blog a few days ago, there are updated Office 2013 administrative templates and Office updates that allow an administrator to pre-configure the Office 2013 Theme. The term pre-configure is important, because the setting Read More …
When opening the local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) you will notice that on a default Windows 7 SP1 Enterprise client there is no logging and tracing node for Group Policy Preferences logging underneath the Group Policy node. The reason for Read More …
When configuring ConfigMgr 2012 client settings, notice that some of these settings result in Local Group Policy Settings being applied to the client. If you’re sure that you have not configured any other local GPOs, then a simple way to Read More …
When creating a Group Policy Preference you can configure it to only apply once. The exact wording is “Apply once and do not reapply”. But when you are implementing such a GPP you most likely want to test the setting Read More …
While creating a new Group Policy object to enable WinRM (Windows Remote Management) on clients, I noticed some Group Policy changes that are introduced with the Windows Management Framework 3.0. The Windows Management Framework 3.0 contains the following updates: Windows Read More …
Creating registry settings manually within the Group Policy Preferences editor can become a cumbersome task, especially when you need to create many of them. Although the Group Policy Management console allows you to import registry keys stored within an XML Read More …
Most enterprises take advantage of Group Policies to manage security configuration settings across their server and desktop infrastructure. Usually once tested and implemented it’s assumed they get applied correctly. But can we be 100% sure that our clients and servers Read More …