The Group Policy Management Console -- also known as the GPMC or Group Policy Management Editor -- is used to configure permissions and settings in Windows Server 2008. It is one of the easiest ways ...

With nearly 1,000 settings available in Windows Server 2003 Group Policy, troubleshooting is a burdensome and often frustrating experience for administrators. The most frequent problem—by far—for ...

In this post, we will see how to backup and restore Group Policy Objects and Settings in Windows 11/10 or Windows Server. To do this, you will need to download and install Group Policy Management ...

In-Depth Lighten Up the Group Policy Load Microsoft’s new Group Policy Management Console is a solid—and much needed—tool for enterprise environments. By Zubair Alexander 10/01/2003 One of the major ...

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Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

If you open the Group Policy Management Console, for example on a Windows Server 2008 machine or a pre-Service-Pack-1 Vista machine, you will see a new container in the navigation pane, titled ...

When Microsoft introduced group policy objects (GPOs) along with Windows Server 2000 nearly 17 years ago, they were an exciting new approach to managing user and system permissions. Today, they’re ...

Group Policy isn’t dead yet. Just because your company has embraced or at least tolerates the BYOD movement and your iPhone is connected to corporate email, you’ll still face restrictions on your ...

Microsoft this week posted a free tool to help administrators manage Group Policy. The Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) combines new functionality with existing Microsoft tools to centralize and ...

In this post, we will show you how to exclude individual users or computers from a Group Policy Object. Usually, when group policy is applied, it is applied for all the computers or user groups or all ...

One of the major Windows 2000 selling points for Microsoft has been Active Directory and its Group Policies. However, Microsoft didn’t offer any unified tool for managing the core aspects of Group ...