How to make Adobe Reader 9 more secure using Group Policy
Update: I have since reposted this article with new registry keys that makes configured Adobe updater a lot easer. Check it out at Â...
View ArticleHow to use Group Policy Preferences to Secure Local Administrator Groups
One problem I see all the time is IT administrator never being able to control who is a local administrator of any particular computer. The problem is that when you give someone local admin access to a...
View ArticleHow to use Group Policy to fix Adobe Reader PDF Preview in Windows 64bit
Leo Davidson recently posted a fix for Adobe Reader integration on 64bit Windows. His fix resolves the thumbnail and file preview feature when you install Adobe Reader (which is still only available...
View ArticleHow to use Group Policy to make USB drives read only on Windows XP
One of the great new features with Windows 7 was Bitlocker to Go that enabled IT Administrators to ensure that all data written to USB drives is encrypted. In conjunction with this new feature...
View ArticleHow to use Group Policy to disable USB drives on Windows XP
In my previous article “How to use Group Policy to make USB drives read only on Windows XP†I showed you you could configure Windows XP to prevent users from writing to USB block level devices....
View ArticleHow to use Group Policy to configure home page settings – Part 1
One of the most common setting that Group Policy is used for it so configure browser home pages settings. There are a number of ways that this can be done in Part 1 i am going to go thought the...
View ArticleHow to use Group Policy to disable the EU Browser Choice
In case you had not already heard Microsoft have had to release an update for all European users to prompt display a ballot screen about what version of browser they want to use (see below). This is...
View ArticleHow to use Group Policy to turn off the Backup Notification in the Windows 7...
UPDATE: Since I published this article Microsoft published an new MSDN article showing a simple registry key that can turn this backup notification. Therefore please go to this article “How to use...
View ArticleHow to use Group Policy to configure home page settings – Part 2
In part 2 of how to use Group Policy to configure a users home page I will be show you how to use Group Policy Preferences to configure a users home page. There really isnâ€t a right way you can set...
View ArticleWhat are Group Policy Preferences
Group Policy Preferences have been out for about 3 years now and so there have been a number web posts about what they are and how they are implemented. So I have created a list of links to other...
View ArticleHow to use Group Policy to configure Internet Explorer security zone sites
As you know Group Policy Preferences are these fantastic new settings that allow IT administrators perform any configuration they want on a users group using Group Policy… well almost.. In this...
View ArticleHow to use Group Policy to configure home page settings – Part 3
I know a lot of people have asked for this third an final instalment on how to use Group Policy to manage home page settings and so I have finally been able to find some time to finish this series of...
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