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Microsoft Open Specifications Documentation for Group Policy

If you want to learn more about Group Policies then I suggest that you download and read the following documents: MS-GPSOD]: Group Policy System Overv...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, February 20, 2011

Retrieve Group Policy size in SYSVOL folder with PowerShell

Needless to say that there are quite some benefits in using a central store for Group Policies, one of them is that you can prevent the so-called SYSV...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Monday, January 24, 2011

ReadTip: How to use Group Policy Preferences to Secure Local Administrator Groups

As we come to the year’s end I was doing some housekeeping in my home lab. Too many unused VMs, ad-hoc created Accounts etc. In the end I thought why ...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Saturday, December 18, 2010

Control Windows 7 Scheduled Maintenance Behavior Through Group Policy

This week one of my customers send me the Microsoft support article [KB978980 – Desktop Shortcuts disappear in Windows 7](http://support.microsoft.com...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, November 7, 2010

Creating Group Policy Objects with PowerShell

In my previous post I wrote about how to [create Group Policy reports](https://www.verboon.info/index.php/2010/10/creating-group-policy-reports-with-p...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Saturday, October 16, 2010

Creating Group Policy Reports with PowerShell

I’ve had this on my “must do some hands on” list for months, finally found some time to play a bit with the new [PowerShell Group Policy CmdLets](http...

Posted by Alex Verboon on Sunday, October 3, 2010