Browsing: Group Policy

Group Policy

As a consultant and instructor I use my virtual labs every day for developing, testing and doing demos. My virtual lab has 2 Domain Controllers and and a member server for each role or version of a product that I need in my lab. Most of my member servers has a lot of snapshots, so I can “travel” back and forward in time if I need to test stuff over and over again. Or if I’m testing a beta product where I get get new builds, so I don’t need to configure all the pre-requirements over and over again. If…

From time to time I spend time on troubleshooting Active Directory and SYSVOL replication at my customers. The built in replication schedule are great, but some time it’s nice to force replication on all Domain Controllers to minimize the waiting time… This script will force an instant replication on all domain controllers. ReplicateAD.vbs Option Explicit Dim objDSE, strDN, objContainer, objChild, sCommand, WshShell Set objDSE = GetObject(“LDAP://rootDSE”) strDN = “OU=Domain Controllers,” & objDSE.Get(“defaultNamingContext”) Set objContainer = GetObject(“LDAP://” & strDN) sCommand = “%COMSPEC% /C ” Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) objContainer.Filter = Array(“Computer”) For Each objChild In objContainer WshShell.Run(sCommand & “repadmin /syncall “…

Multiple Group Policy Preferences have been added to the Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Management Console (which are also available through the Remote Server Administration Toolset (RSAT) for Windows Vista SP1). Group Policy Preferences enable information technology professionals to configure, deploy, and manage operating system and application settings they previously were not able to manage using Group Policy. A few days ago Microsoft released a new version of the Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions. Microsoft Windows XP (x86): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e60b5c8f-d7dc-4b27-a261-247ce3f6c4f8&DisplayLang=en Microsoft Windows XP (x64): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=249c1aed-c1f1-4a0b-872e-ef0a32170625&DisplayLang=en Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (x86): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bfe775f9-5c34-44d0-8a94-44e47db35add&DisplayLang=en Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (x64): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=29e83503-7686-49f3-b42d-8e5ed23d5d79&DisplayLang=en For more information…

Here we are – Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions are now available for download. This is a cool thing bringing lot’s of Group Policy Power to admins around the world! The GPP CSEs are included in Windows Server 2008 RTM, but can now be downloaded for: Windows XP SP2+ (32/64 bit) Windows Server 2003 SP1+ (32/64 bit) Windows Vista RTM+ (32/64 bit) These are the links: GPP CSEs for Windows Vista (KB943729) GPP CSEs for Windows Vista x64 Edition (KB943729) GPP CSEs for Windows Server 2003 (KB943729) GPP CSEs for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition (KB943729) GPP CSEs for…