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Group Policy in Windows Server 2012: Infrastructure Status
You may be asking yourself, “What does infrastructure status have to do with Group Policy”. Well, group policy depends on other technologies to ensure that policy settings are replicated throughout your environment so that end users / computers will get the settings that you configure.
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Group Policy in Windows Server 2012: Results Report Improvements
Another change we made in Windows Server 2012 is in the Resultant Set of Policy reports. In previous versions of Server, you had to look at the results report, and the event log, and the tracing logs to find all the information you needed about why policy did or did not apply. Now, we’ve consolidated most of that information right into the results report to make troubleshooting Group Policy easier.
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Group Policy in Windows Server 2012: Using Remote GPUpdate
If someone calls to say their computer doesn’t work quite right, the first thing you might have them do is run gpupdate /force to ensure they have the latest policy applied to their system. Now, you have the power to reach out and force a gpupdate without needing to be at the computer, remote in, or ask the user do it themselves.
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Group Policy in Windows Server 2012: Overview
Now that Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 have been released, we’d like to share with you some of the exciting enhancements that we’ve added for Group Policy.
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Updates: AdExplorer v1.44, Contig v1.7, Coreinfo v3.2, Procdump v5.1
AdExplorer v1.44: This release fixes a bug that caused AdExplorer to crash when it encountered corrupted extended rights schemas.
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Kaspersky Lab: Microsoft software products pretty darn secure
What a statement! The last time I was on a panel with Eugene Kaspersky, he told us that the world will end and the only way to prevent this from happening is a new really secure OS (and they have one…).