Category Archives: GPO

How to Import ADMX files for Windows 10

Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) not showing Windows 10 related settings/policies To manage Windows 10 machines through windows group policy you should have Windows 10 Group Policy (.ADMX) templates files and ADML files to your Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 R2 domain controllers, around 190 different templates are available for Windows 10 which help you to configure different setting on… Read More »

Install printer through group policy

Deploying printers via group policy using the Print Management console, if your not installed Print Management then Install Print Management by adding or updating the print server role through Manage Your Server Deploying printers through GPO o Open the Print Management console and select the printer you want to install. o In the results pane,… Read More »

Issue managing IE configuration through GPO

List of trusted sites went empty recently, yes the Trusted Sites list got empty, it says: “No sites are in this zone” how to resolve this issue We had an issue like some one edited the default domain policy to update the trusted site list and we have lost entire IE configuration (Like trusted site… Read More »

Group Policy slow link detection on windows server 2008

Group Policy slow link detection process change on windows server 2008You can see my earlier article on Group Policy slow link detection Group Policy Processing over Slow Links in windows 2003(part1) Group Policy Processing over Slow Links(Part2) In windows server 2003, Group Policy slow link detection uses the ICMP ping to detect the network bandwidth.… Read More »

SYSVOL Folder Structure and location

SYSVOL Folder location and Structure: About each folder under the SYSVOL share in Domain Controller SYSVOL folder used to store a copy of the domain’s public files like system policies, Group Policy settings, and login/logoff scripts, which are replicated to all other domain controllers in the Active Directory domain through File Replication Services (FRS), You… Read More »

Why we can’t edit/view windows 2008, Vista and windows 7 GPO settings from windows 2003

Unable to edit/view Group policy settings from windows 2003 If you have mixed environment like Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 then some of the group policy changes need to be configure from windows server 2008 or Windows Vista & Windows 7, you can’t edit or see the policy settings from windows 2003/windows XP because windows server… Read More »