NetPro last week bolstered its security and compliance suite for Microsoft’s Active Directory with software that lets users delegate who can set and change policies used to manage desktops and servers ...

Microsoft Monday moved to improve its portfolio of management tools by acquiring DesktopStandard, which develops software that uses group policy for managing computers. DesktopStandard develops a ...

Let's walk through what to do and what you should avoid when group policy structures get a bit complicated. In the first part of this series, I discussed some various ways that you could document your ...

Group Policy was introduced in Windows 2000 Server and was a great boon to administrator productivity. While Group Policy was enhanced and extended in Windows Server 2003, there were not many ...

The Settings app and Control Panel are the two go-to destinations for Windows customizations and settings. However, the Local Group Policy Editor is probably home to some of the most advanced user ...

Since SP1 has come out for Vista, I decided to give it another spin at work. On the bright side, it seems to not be as much of a memory how as it once was.<BR><BR>However, for the life of me I can't ...

I've got a Windows 2012 R2 Active Directory domain setup with folder redirection for the domain users (the only group 99% of normal users are in is the Domain Users group). It never should have been ...

The transition to Windows 11 from Windows 10 gives organizations the opportunity to review and optimize security tools, settings and policies. You’ve been given the task for 2022 to start a pilot ...

To run this tool, open an elevated Command Prompt, type the following, and hit Enter: To force apply only the changed policies, type or copy-paste the following command, and hit Enter: In Windows ...

The IT leader's checklist for risk, readiness, replacementIssued by Symbiosys ITJohannesburg, 23 Sep 2025 AGPM was built for a different era of IT. Microsoft’s Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) ...

Microsoft has confirmed that a bug in Windows 10 version 1607 and Windows Server 2016 is causing the Group Policy Editor to display errors. In our September 2020 Windows health report, we reported ...

Do you have to change policy settings but only for some users? Here's how on Windows 11. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On ...