Group Policy 2008 Features: I will discusses about the Group policy changes in windows 2008 server, Microsoft have made some of interesting changes and added new features in Group Policy 2008, first I will list the features and explain one by one • New Administrative template files (ADMX)• New Policy settings o Power options … Read More »
Cannot edit or modify Local group policy “Log on as a service” and “Allow log on locally” policies on Windows 2003 server Unable to edit Local security policy If you try to edit the local group policy settings or change the local group policy settings, some policy setting won’t allow to edit and it’s grayed… Read More »
Check the trusted site and activeX approval site list in IE7 After adding the trusted site and activex approval list through GPO, we have to check from client system that the newly added sites are updated or not, normally it take some time to replicate if you have more complicated AD environment. We can use… Read More »
Adding a trusted website for IE7 or Vista and later versions is different from the adding trusted website for XP and windows 2000, if you are having Vista and later versions in you your environment then you have to follow the below procedure to add the trusted sites and configure the active x settings. We… Read More »
JPG Screensaver Can I use the JGP file instead for SCR file for Screen Saver? NO, JPG file can’t be used for a screen saver, you have to convert .jpg file to .SCR file, to configure the Screen Saver
How to change the Screen Saver through GPO? Open the group policy you would like to edit, and reach the below path User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Control Panel/Display Below settings we have to configure to enable the Screen Saver: Screen Saver: Set this to enabled Screen Saver Timeoute: Set this to your specified time Screen Saver executable… Read More »
We have many ways to do this, depends on the requirement you can select one 1. Change users wallpaper through GPO2. Change manually on per computer through registry3. Change manually on per computer through changing the wallpaper1.bmp 1. Change users wallpaper through GPO In active directory, you can change wallpaper through group policy, depends on… Read More »
Unable to get the result from gpresult on windows 2003 server, gpresult return with the access denied errors, you can able to update the group policy without issue Run the following commands to register the userenv.dll and recompilethe rsop mof file To resolve the access denied error while doing the gpresult. 1. Open a cmd… Read More »
You have aware the known roaming profile issues, roaming profile will not work with the remote site (especially low bandwidth sites like VPN site) When user tries to log on to the system from one site and the configured roaming profile server in the other site then the system will not loads the roaming profile,… Read More »
IE7 group policy Normal Home page configuration for IE6 will not work for IE7, for IE6 we have to use below group policy settings (this group policy setting will not work for IE7) That User configuration>>Windows settings>>Internet explorer maintenance>>URLs>>Important URLs (does not work with IE7) If you have IE7 or Windows Vista or Windows 7… Read More »
