GPO Item Level Targeting is one of the most powerful tools you can use as a Group Policy admin. First of all, You know how important it is to segregate your domain into applicable OUs for different user and computer AD accounts (see Figure 1). Figure 1: Example OUs for an active directory. While […]
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If you’re an IT professional and want to merge GPO settings into a single object, you’ve come to the right place. Network administrators have to contend with different types of sprawl within their enterprises, such as server sprawl, VM sprawl, and storage sprawl. Group Policy administrators have to contend with their own particular type of […]
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I recently upgraded our PolicyPak test lab with UE-V 2.0 from UE-V 1.0. To be sure, there’s really no “upgrade” process. Some snags I ran into: I figured doing an in-place upgrade from UE-V 1.0 agent to UE-V 2.0 agent would magically upgrade, remove the original UE-V 1.0 agent and keep going. Um.. Sort of. […]
In your company, your desktop evolves; so you have to evolve. Your desktop now has one, two, three or four (or more!) web browsers in it. If you have any Windows 10 machines out there now, you automatically have two browsers: IE 11 and Edge ! Add one or two more browsers, and what do […]
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Remember when they said people wouldn’t go to live concerts anymore thanks to the popularity of music videos? There weren’t supposed to be real estate agents anymore thanks to Zillow and there wasn’t supposed to be investment firms thanks to E*Trade. There also wasn’t supposed to be Group Policy thanks to the cloud and MDM, […]
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For nearly two decades, the Group Policy Editor has been a valuable management tool to enforce configuration settings. Combined with Group Policy Preferences, administrators have been able to manage more than 10,000 settings. Group Policy Editor has become the “go-to” tool to ensure users receive an excellent desktop experience. However, while Group Policy Editor may […]
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Configuring Google Chrome Group Policy settings is an excellent way to make your users happy and more productive. Google Chrome and other web browsers have become the most critical enterprise application because the SaaS-based programs that your users work with daily require web browsers to run. As a result, it’s extremely important to manage and […]
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Saying “Group Policy loopback processing” out loud can put your stomach in knots. If you have no idea what we are talking about, then let’s backtrack and summarize what it means to enable Group Policy Loopback processing. For starters, Group Policy provides you the ability to manage and deploy thousands of configurations settings to users […]
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Do You Have These 6 Windows Security Settings Set Up? Windows security settings can help secure domain controllers, servers, clients, and other resources in your organization. Without Windows security settings, you would be unable to authenticate users, limit access to resources, manage group membership, or audit changelogs. Microsoft designed Windows security settings to combat the […]
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It’s hard to do it alone. Countries don’t attempt to go at it alone. They make alliances with other nations, teaming up with allies in order to work collectively towards common goals. The same is the case for when you’re implementing modern desktop management. In a world that consists of both on prem and cloud […]
