Group Policies are essential to keeping Active Directory resources secure. At the same time however, group policy objects are a favorite target for attackers who may leverage group policy to spread ...

Microsoft has released a fix for an elevation-of-privilege flaw in Windows Group Policy that affects all supported versions of Windows. Windows Group Policy is used by admins to create Group Policy ...

An old Chinese proverb advises us to “preserve the old, but know the new.” The old template concept has been preserved for us in the new Windows Server 2008 operating system, in the form of what ...

I wondered which filters you guys all use for your Group Policies? For example I have a piece of software where I need to deploy a different MSI for Windows XP than I do Windows Vista or Windows 7.

To learn more about these steps, continue reading. First, you need to open the Server Manager. You can open it from the Start Menu or by searching for it in the Taskbar search box. Then, choose the ...

"Known affected Group Policy Objects are related to files and shortcuts in User Configuration -> Preferences -> Windows Settings in Group Policy Editor." The list of affected platforms includes client ...

Microsoft issues a patch to fix a flaw that could allow compromised non-privileged user accounts to place malicious DLLs on a system. Microsoft fixed 129 vulnerabilities today across its entire range ...

The Group Policy Editor allows you to change policies that can restrict, enable, or disable features in Windows. There are thousands of policies, and if you do not know how to search, it is almost ...

I was having some problems with my DCs last week, and I ended up restoring them from tape. However, due to the incompetance of my coworkers, the tape I restored from wasn't as recent as it should have ...