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Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions are now available for download!

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 Windows XP (KB943729)
GPP CSEs for Windows XP x64 Edition (KB943729)

To get Group Policy Preferences on your network all you need is a single Windows Server 2008 as

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on February 26th, 2008 with no comments.
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Yes of course you can assign Group Policies to Security Groups!

I have to blog this right away - it will be part of a larger "GP Processing" article at some point though… But this is IMHO important stuff which needs to get out there quick :)

 

I’ve heard the following sentence too many times (in one way or the other): "You can only assign Group Policy Objects to Site, Domain Level or OU’s"…

- but that’s only partly true! Normally in newsgroups, forums etc. this leaves the readers (eg. someone who asked a GP question or whatever) with the impression that you cannot "hit" members of a certain Security Group only (which leaves you with "Site/Domain/OU Filtering" and/or "WMI Filtering" as the only possible a choices available). But that’s simply not fair to the amazing Group Policy processing engine!

Even though "WMI Filtering" is pretty well-known these days (after WS2003 arrived), many people tend to forget the little - but extremely effective and flexible - thing called "Security Filtering" (even though it’s somewhat more "Basic" compared to WMI)…

 

Let’s talk about it for a minute or two if you are interested…

 

You can set this kind of filtering within

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on January 24th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Starter GPO’s - what are they?

With Windows Server 2008 (Codename Longhorn) you will notice a new container called “Starter GPOs” inside the GPMC (version 2.0 - BTW this version will also be available as a separate download for Windows Vista with SP1).

This new container can hold what I would call “templates” for creating new GPO’s - with the limitation that only Administrative Template settings are available. When creating new GPO’s you can choose to use a Starter GPO as the source (read: template) - which makes it easy and fast to create multiple GPO’s with the same baseline configuration.

But, the very cool thing is that you can now “export” those GPO templates (Starter GPO’s) to a Cabinet file (.CAB) and then import into another environment - completely independent of the source domain/forest! So, you can create the PERFECT Starter GPO and then bring it around the world, share it on the Internet (if legal?), deploy it on all systems you can get a hold on etc. etc.

When you ‘enable’ Starter GPO’s in the domain for the first time, a folder called “StarterGPOs” is created inside the SYSVOL folder (\\domain.com\SYSVOL\domain.com\StarterGPOs) - this is where all the “magic” is done… For

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on October 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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ITsVISTA Web Links: September 23rd, 2007

Written by Joe on September 23rd, 2007 with no comments.
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ITsVISTA Web Links: September 12th, 2007

Written by Joe on September 12th, 2007 with no comments.
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Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer

Microsoft just released a free tool to search for errors in Group Policy configuration - totally new and cool tool in the Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) series.

Download here:
GPDBPA for Windows XP
GPDBPA for Windows XP x64 Edition
GPDBPA for Windows Server 2003
GPDBPA for Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition

Read more here:
Microsoft KB 940122 article: “How to use the Microsoft Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer (GPDBPA) tool to collect and to analyze data”

Quote from KB article:
You can use the Microsoft Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer (GPDBPA) tool to collect data about an environment’s Group Policy configuration. For example, you can use this tool to analyze a Group Policy configuration for the following purposes:

• To search for common configuration errors
• To discover and to diagnose problems
• To collect data for archiving

The account that you use to run the tool must have the appropriate permissions to access both the Active Directory database on an environment’s domain controllers and the SYSVOL file structure that is maintained on those domain controllers. Additionally, the account must have local Administrator permissions on the Group Policy…

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on September 2nd, 2007 with no comments.
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