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 ...

Group policy can make your life as an administrator blissful or stressful. Learn from one expert’s experiences what works with group policies, and what doesn’t. I want a time machine. If I had a time ...

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 ...

You know a little bit about what Windows 2000 group policies are and how they work. But how does Windows 2000 apply group policies? In this Daily Drill Down, Jim Boyce shows you how. In previous Daily ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Group policy can make your life as an administrator blissful or stressful. Learn from one expert’s experiences what works with group policies, and what doesn’t. I want a time machine. If I had a time ...