In an Active Directory environment, Group Policy is an easy way to configure computer and user settings on computers that are part of the domain. An Active Directory environment means that you must ...

Group Policy is an important security tool that allows administrators to set, configure, and apply certain security settings to computers and users in Active Directory. In this article, we will see ...

I was having some problems with my DCs last week, and I ended up restoring them from tape. However, due to the incompetance of my coworkers, the tape I restored from wasn't as recent as it should have ...

The recent Google hack has brought security to the top of every IT admin’s mind, if it wasn’t there already. But securing a network is a huge investment of time and money, to the point that many best ...

Error message The processing of Group Policy failed, Event ID 1058 occurs in Windows Server, when the OS is not able to read the file from a domain controller. The ...

The Group Policy Editor is one of the most effective ways to manage computer settings as a network administrator. The File and Printer Sharing setting needs to be enabled in your business' network ...

Most of what is “new” in Group Policy enhancements in Windows 2008 R2 were actually in Windows 2008, however many organizations never migrated off Active Directory 2003 to Active Directory 2008, so ...

Attackers have learned to use Active Directory and Group Policy to find weaknesses in Windows networks and identify targets. Here's what you can do to prevent that. Active Directory, part of Windows ...

A new version of the LockBit 2.0 ransomware has been found that automates the encryption of a Windows domain using Active Directory group policies. The LockBit ransomware operation launched in ...

Taking a systematic approach when troubleshooting problems is usually better than rolling dice or shooting in the dark. When something goes wrong with Group Policy processing and a client running ...