Group Policy is a feature of the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems that control the working environment of user accounts and computer accounts. Group Policy provides the centralized management and configuration of operating systems, applications, and users' settings in an Active Directory environment.
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Scheduled Task is Not Showing Up for PowerShell Script
I have a GPO set up to push a scheduled task via computer config. Action is (start a program):
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
Arguments:
-nologo -noprofile -noninteractive…

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Some computers on a powershell GPO script not recognizing parameter
I am running into an issue where about 10% of computers on my network are throwing a very strange errors when processing. The error I get is "Where-Object : A Parameter cannot be found that matches paramter name 'Property'" the code I'm using is as…

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Disable flash player in chrome via group policy
How could I disable flash player in google chrome browsers for my 50 AD computers via group policy or script 2008 R2 ?
I have tried couple softwares, one of them - PDQDeploy_6, but this software is not suitable for my task.

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Why can't local Windows 7 Pro machine read its own WMI values?
As part of a larger .Net 4.0 program I have a piece that queries the WMI for a list of network adapters and from that creates a list<> of physical adapters with MAC addresses.
It works on the machines I've tried it on, but when sent to the client,…

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Configuring "Do not forcefully unload the users registry at user logoff" in User Profiles of Group Policy editor
I need to write a PowerShell script that should configure the below settings of Group policy in all the machines.
Gpedit.msc → Computer Configuration → Administrative Templates → System → User Profiles → "Do not forcefully unload the users registry…

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Populate GPO from Text File using VBScript or other
Ok, so we need to create a GPO that allows our users to only use specific programs.
GPO Location:
User Configuration
Policies
Administrative Templates [...]
System
Run only specified Windows applications
Then setting the GPO to enabled…

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Change default GPO namespace?
We have recently set up a test domain controller to examine settings before pushing them to production at work.
Upon setting up this domain a simple error was made in the DNS settings. We forgot the subdomain.
testdomain.com rather than…

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Add USER GPO setting based on existence of a folder on the C: drive of the client machine
I need to add a Trusted Location for Word which is a User GPO setting, BUT I only need this for about 400 users out of 3000 on our network.
The only identifier I have is that the users I want to target will some software installed on the pc.
Is…

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Edit Group Policy to turn off firewall using Powershell
I know I can use Set-NetFirewallProfile –Enabled False to turn off the firewall but if I restart the server, the firewall becomes enabled. The only thing that works if if I edit the local group policy (computer config -> admin templates -> network…

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Permissions for ASP
I've inherited quite the intranet, amongst other systems. They were not written by programmers, so there's a fair bit of just getting things to work that was done.
One of the asp pages has worked since I've gotten here, but today all of sudden…

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How to change Windows 8.1 Group Policy programmatically in c#?
I am developing a Windows 8.1 kiosk-type application,and I need to set the group policy custom user interface setting to the .exe of the application. This, of course, can be accomplished by hand, but I would like to be able to change it via c#, or…

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Powershell expand property produces one long string
I'm trying to take a list of groups and use the name of the group to create a Group Policy Object with the same name, but I want to replace the Group portion of the name with GPO, however, it comes out as one long string, and creates the name of the…

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How can I set keyboard filter on windows 7 embedded x64?
I am having trouble setting keyboard filters on windows 7 embedded x64 on a virtual machine. I have tried updating using windows embedded developer update on my windows 7 standard development machine but it will not allow me to get keyboard filter…
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Internet Exlporer - how to always grant the page access to webcam
I'm creating application which uses WebRTC. Application is some kind of videoconference which displays site in fullscreen mode. Is it possible to grant the page automatic access to webcam and microphone? Of course I don't want to made users to do…

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How do I change the owner/group of a file in my server?
I am getting a 500 error because the owner of some of my files is set incorrectly, its set at 0 0 when the rest are at 510 510?? How do I fix this, I've read something about ssh?

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