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.
Questions tagged [group-policy]
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Manage and Create Group policy in Azure Virtual Machine?
I don't have on premises users and computers I have all my users and computers in Azure AD and I have created an Azure Virtual machine to manage my users through group policy, but when I applied a group policy its not working with users. I have also…
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Remove all microsoft teams .exe references from roaming profiles
I have set up a Microsoft Teams GPO deployment using a .msi.
Unfortunately some users have already installed teams using the .exe installer.
This then creates issues with the .msi deployment as when the GPO sees the .exe files it does not…
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Automatically assign different static IP address for each standard user on one home/office windows 7 PC
I have a PC on my office that i have windows 7 ultimate installed on it,
Me and my colleague wanted to use this PC with different user accounts and each of us have a static IP that must be set on its Ethernet adapter, so we connect to the network…
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Certificate enrollment via webserver
We have a webserver that is based on Java and among other things it manages many users and creates & manages digital certificates (both private & public keys) for these.
I am looking for a way to automatically request, download and install a…
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Changing Local Policy "Prevent installation of removable devices "in CMD
How do I edit Group Policy Object "Prevent installation of removable devices" (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753539(v=ws.10).aspx) in CMD?
I have a server (Windows Server 2008 R2) that is locked out as I am unable to use keyboard or…
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How to make a Web/Http server running on Windows 7 accessible within the same network?
I have a Web server running on a Windows 7 in a company domain. Although it sounds like it should work out of the box, but so far I can't access the web server within the same network(home) with a browser. I can't telnet access it either(timeout…
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Read and set Group Policy settings from MFC program?
I want to be able to read and later set the Group Policy settings via a MFC program.
Here's what I would do manually. Run gpedit.msc as administrator and in the "Local Group Policy Editor" I'll go to
Computer Configuration->Administrative…
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Why does Windows Server 2012 R2 group policy security filter require a computer?
I have the following Active Directory:
My Domain
--- Computers
------ Servers
------ Workstations
--------- My Workstation
--- Security Groups
------ MySecurityGroup (Members: MyUser, ...)
--- Users
------ Standard
--------- MyUser
------…
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How to create a new registry.pol file using c#
Actually I am using this statement to create registry.pol file...
using(File.CreateText(@"C:\User\Desktop\Registry.file"))
{
}
using(streamWriter writer=new streamWriter(@"C:\User\Desktop\Registry.file"))
{
writer.write("PReg …
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Windows Server 2012 - GPO settings - Security Filtering and "Authenticated Users" confusion
I want to add a GPO for a few computers at first then deploy this rule to all computers when everything is confirmed OK on the test systems.
I am having troubles getting the GPO to deploy to only test computers.
I have the GPO linked to the specific…
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How to install Chrome Extension programmatically through msi package via enterprise or group pollicy
I have a Chrome Extension hosted on Chrome Web Store for my users. I have already tested it installing programmatically with WiX through writing at Windows registry under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Google\Chrome\Extensions\, but I don't want to…
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Issue with group/domain controls and admin rights
Server: Windows Server 2003
PC: Windows XP (Laptop)
Issue: The PC in question cannot get administrator rights even when logged on as the top level administrator account, or any other admin account. The PC needs admin rights to install printers…
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Configure Group Policy
I'm a programmer, which to write my first program, i already write it... and now I'm providing user interface and the side things which i wish to do automatically instead of making user to do all of them manually...
The problem i have is to…
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Any user can add workstation to Windows Server 2003 domain even with GPO set
As the title says - we have a domain with a DC running Windows Server 2003 that is allowing any authenticated user to add workstations to the domain. Currently in the Default Domain Policy, we have configured it to only allow Administrators to have…
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Enabling or Disabling Group Policies using Powershell
I am trying to enable group policy settings, but not able to figure out how to do it.
tried :
1) get-command grouppolicy, but throws error.
2) not able to import GPO.
Can we do this using pure powershell script.
Thanks in advance.
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