In an Active Directory environment, Group Policy is an easy way to configure computer and user settings on computers that are part of the domain. An Active Directory environment means that you must ...

In-Depth Lighten Up the Group Policy Load Microsoft’s new Group Policy Management Console is a solid—and much needed—tool for enterprise environments. By Zubair Alexander 10/01/2003 One of the major ...

Group Policy Analyzer is a tool from Microsoft that lets you analyze, view and compare sets of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) in Windows. The freeware, launched by Microsoft last week is a good tool to ...

I was having some problems with my DCs last week, and I ended up restoring them from tape. However, due to the incompetance of my coworkers, the tape I restored from wasn't as recent as it should have ...

Group Policy is an important security tool that allows administrators to set, configure, and apply certain security settings to computers and users in Active Directory. In this article, we will see ...

I need to set the membership of local groups on our clients. Specifically I need to ensure that a domain group is a member of local Administrators on a set of clients. These clients are a mix of ...

The Group Policy Editor is one of the most effective ways to manage computer settings as a network administrator. The File and Printer Sharing setting needs to be enabled in your business' network ...

Wireless networks can be very convenient for businesses as they eliminate reliance on Ethernet cabling. Using Active Directory and Group Policy to configure and support Wireless in the enterprise can ...

Windows Time Service, an implementation of Network Time Protocol, ensures that the clocks on all client workstations connected to a network are synchronized. Clients associated with an Active ...

Microsoft has fixed a vulnerability in all current Windows versions that allows an attacker to exploit the Windows Group Policy feature to take full control over a computer. This vulnerability affects ...

One of the major Windows 2000 selling points for Microsoft has been Active Directory and its Group Policies. However, Microsoft didn’t offer any unified tool for managing the core aspects of Group ...