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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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After active directory settings where will be the registry key created

I'am using active directory to create a user, in an application,after that where will be the register key created in registry editor.
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Mapping a network drive only when connected to a Domain

I have looked around a bit, and I haven't found a solution that exactly fits my needs. I have a Laptop that I use for work, and for personal use at home. At work, we are operating on a Domain, and have several Network Storage locations that I use…
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COM Interops InvalidCastException with IGroupPolicyObject

I have defined the following class using COM to use the IGroupPolicyObject using C#.NET: [ComImport, Guid("EA502722-A23D-11d1-A7D3-0000F87571E3")] public class GPClass { // The C# compiler will add a parameterless constructor that…
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Group Policy Event Forwarding through PowerShell - Windows

On windows server, when you open group policy setting (gpedit.msc in System32), I can set up Event Forwarding by following steps here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb870973(v=vs.85).aspx under section Configuring the event…
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SQL Compact Edition (CE) and password complexity requirements

In Windows 7 we have group policies enforcing password complexity requirements which demands "better" password for SQL server express. Does this impact SQL CE as well?
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How to list all GPOs applied to an OU included inherited ones(C#)

I'm searching for a way to list all GPOs applied (linked and inherited) to a specific OU through code. I know there is an attribute representing the linked GPOs called GPLink, but it only gives the directly linked ones. I searched google and found…
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Deploy MSI in advance to Group Policy Software Install

BACKGROUND My software is deployed over our network via Group Policy, using a standard MSI installer with some custom actions that register that the software is in fact deployed. It's all very simple and standard. It's a big Windows app, and all the…
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How to create GPO programmatically?

I need to deploy my vb.net application via group policy. I found some information on how to do this here http://windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/11/14/how-to-deploy-software-using-group-policy.html. Now I need to do the same programmatically.…
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Enabling Chrome extension " Office Editing for docs, sheets & slides" as a default app instead of opening Microsoft office tools

As a system admin we want to get rid of complete office tools (Microsoft tools eg - word, ppt, pdf, excel) and use google doc, sheets and slides for view and editing to limit the budget purchasing the license for office tools. Goal:-Adding extension…
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Win 10 Enterprise Logging Users Out Instead Of Locking

I'm an IT Support Engineer for a company with around 60,000 workstations on our domain. We use AD for most things, but have just begun migrating to VMware's Workspace One. Recently, we've had a bunch of reports from users that when they manually…
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Group Policy restricting Administrators

I want to disable users being able to use CMD. This is what I did with my Administrator account: However, for some reason my Administrator account also got restricted from command prompt: Is there a way to fix this?
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Edge and Ggroup Policy

I am not a Group Policy expert at all but I need some help for alowwing Edge modification and removal in the 'Application and Services' of Windows 10 because these two buttons are disabled now and I think it can be solved in GP but I do not know…
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GPUdate PS Commandlet

I'm having an issue with this script. For some reason, it was working previously and now it is not. It is now returning with: Invoke-GPUpdate : The term 'Invoke-GPUpdate' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable…
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Is there a way to automatically update windows 10 OS for computers in domain on group policy?

I want to be able to push a new group policy out with a powershell script (or scripts most likely) that will make all computers on our active domain update to the windows OS that we want. Currently there are hundreds of users and we don't have a way…
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Disabling network discovery on Win10 via GPO?

I'm trying to disable network discovery on Win10 for Public and Private networks via GPO, but it doesn't seem to be working as expected. I've attempted the instructions here:…
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