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One of the things system administrators do quite often is create, tweak and troubleshoot active directory group policies. As you know, some of these group policies can become quite large and can contain hundreds...
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Add ADMX templates to Group Policy
To add ADMX templates to Group Policy, Windows Server 2008 and above uses a Central Store to store Administrative Template files. In Windows 7, the ADM folder is not created in a GPO as in...
Group policy to add safe senders
Using group policy to add safe senders to Microsoft Outlook junk e-mail options is easy. Of course, it is also very easy to manually add safe senders by right-clicking the email, select Junk and...
Part III – Deploy Windows 8.1
Part III – Build Windows 8.1 Group Policy Objects Welcome to Part III in our Deploy Windows 8.1 blog post series. Up until now, we’ve built an image, fixed it so we can connect...
How to deploy desktop wallpaper via group policy
Deploying a common desktop wallpaper via group policy is very easy. There are two main things you need to do. 1. Distribute the image file to a central location throughout the network 2. Create a...
Set Time Zone via Group Policy
Setting the time zone on computers via a group policy object (GPO) is a common requirement and very easy to do. I recently found myself rolling out a new server and computers in the...