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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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Windows Server 2012 Remote Desktop Server slow GPO applied

I have a Remote Desktop Server 2012 R2. I have a loopback enabled GPO with a few settings. Then I've got a few user-configurated GPO's which are applied. They are working just fine. However, I'm having issues with one specific GPO that runs a .vbs…
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Khan Academy goes into compatibility mode with my proxy settings - solution

I found that when I switched to a new proxy Khan Academy wasn't working on most of the computers in my school any more. I don't know why not all since we all use the same one, but anyway, after looking around for ages I finally found a solution. So,…
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Package Visual Studio Setup Project for Silent installation with Group Policy

I have a Visual Studio Setup Project created to install a VSTO application. The Setup Project outputs an EXE and 2 MSI files. One MSI for the VSTO and another MSI for Office Runtime dependency. I know the setup.exe is used to check for…
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Enforcing ppolicy to openldap users

I am working with OpenLDAP and client browser as Apache directory Studio. I did whatever required for enforcing ppolicies to the openLDAP users still I think its missing something and someware. This is my ppolicy.ldif dn: dc=maxcrc,dc=com …
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Group Policy Object Creation Failed - This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this object

We have a Windows SBS 2008 domain controller (the only one in our domain) and I'm trying to create a new Group Policy Object to handle printers. Every time I attempt to create a new GPO, either in the Group Policy folder directly or the linked in…
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Powershell script has different results when run via GP and PS console

I have a powershell script meant to run at logon to help monitor a lab. When it is run from the powershell console it runs fine, it is able to grab the appropriate system information, generate a url based on that, and submit a web request and get…
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After using CreateProcessAsUser to restore user to session 1, user's path's are no longer accessible

Using ANCI C, and the Windows API: I am calling the function CreateProcessAsUser(,,,) from a Windows 7 service application (running in session 0) to launch an application as the user logged into session 1. This works well. All behavior exhibited by…
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Confirm encryption type used

Is it possible to look at a PDF and tell what encryption level was use to encrypt it? We are proposing to set an AES encryption level, in Word by group policy, and wanted to confirm this was actually used on the resultant document. The default AES…
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How does Microsoft Windows Group Policy relate to programming?

Is it inheritance? Is it the decorator pattern? The Composite Pattern? Strategy Pattern? Something else?
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GPO WMI username filter not working over RDP

I'm trying to write a WMI filter to prevent a GPO from applying to certain users SELECT * from Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE NOT UserName LIKE 'domain\\user1_%' AND NOT UserName LIKE 'domain\\user2_%' This works correctly if the user is logged onto…
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gpupdate with powershell

I want to perform a gpupdate as an -Action of a System.IO.FileSystemWatcher instance but gpupdate occasionally hangs completely when being called from PowerShell. I have tried the following way to handle an inresponsive gpupdate but it does not work…
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Prevent Windows from Logging Off (or Shutting Down) using windows settings

I'm a system administrator who has full administrative access to a computer lab which dual boots windows and mac machines. I'm looking for a way to prevent users from logging off or shutting down the computer (until my kbox / radmind / bash scripts…
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Adding EFS Data Recovery Agent (DRA) certificate programmatically by API

I'm looking for a way to programmatically (any language) add a Data Recovery Agent (DRA) certificate for Encrypting File System (EFS) in Windows OS. Manually it's easy to perform by: gpedit.msc - Security Settings -> Public Key Policies ->…
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How to make a script only run once per user by gpo?

I have been searching the web and i came up with NO results while it seems so convenient to have! Background information: With basic netlogon batchfiles i used a write a checkfile in a temp folder to check if this script has already ran so it…
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JACC Policy Provider:Failed Permission Check permission (" ("java.security.SecurityPermission" "setPolicy") ")

If I deploy my jsf2.0 web app on glassfish3.1.2 it is working fine and login mechanism is working fine. But same app when i am trying to deploy on glassfish3.1.2 on my colleagues machine at the time of login it is giving JACC permission check…
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