Category Archives: Group Policy

Windows 8.1 GPO Setting – How to Disable the Help Tips for Charms during first time login?

Posted on November 14, 2013 by vbzine

Whenever a new user login to Windows 8.1, they will get help tips on Charms as shown on below screen capture. It will go away till user perform once as instructed. This can really be irritating to experienced users. But … Continue reading →

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Windows 8.1 GPO Setting – Why Configure "Search, Share, Start, Devices, and Settings don’t appear when the mouse is pointing to the upper-right corner of the screen"?

Posted on November 14, 2013 by vbzine

Does your user complains to you that the Search, Share, Start, Devices and Settings Edge User Interface (UI) keep appearing every time they try to close a Windows Explorer or Application Windows? This is the reason why you get this … Continue reading →

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What is “WinX” or “Charms” in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Group Policy Settings Reference Sheet is referring to?

Posted on November 13, 2013 by vbzine

Anyone who tried to view through the newly release excel sheet from Microsoft sharing on the new GPO settings applicable to Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. I believe you will have some questions as I do… In case … Continue reading →

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Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 – Missing Details in the Excel Sheet

Posted on November 12, 2013 by vbzine

For those who went to download the excel sheet that provide the list of new GPO settings from the link – http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25250 You may need to comb through the whole excel sheet together with test environment to get a full … Continue reading →

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Unable to edit GPO with settings imported – Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

Posted on November 11, 2013 by vbzine

How I love Monday. Situation Scenario today is: 1. Setup a new test Windows Server 2012 R2 Test Domain in Microsoft Virtual Environment. 2. Backup GPOs from existing Domain and convert the Folder containing the GPOs into ISO 3. Mount … Continue reading →

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Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is released!

Posted on November 7, 2013 by vbzine

The wait is over… The spread sheet that GPO administrator will NEED is out. Thank You Microsoft! Please follow the link below to grab it now! http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=25250 What to do after you download? HAVE FUN! I am going through one … Continue reading →

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Deployment of TCPIP Printer via GPO & GPP

Posted on November 14, 2011 by vbzine

Finally, the approach is matured thanks to my team-mate – Lee Chung Ming and Lim Choon Seng. They found the way to inject the printer driver to the Windows 7 Client machine, overcome the UAC. Here, under my blog, I … Continue reading →

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Some of the Basic on GPO – GPO Processing and Precedence

Posted on November 3, 2011 by vbzine

Recently got many questions about how GPO works.. Why does it not work that way.. Why Computer Configuration setting is not working and more. I start to think and realised the the root cause is those people are not familiar … Continue reading →

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Read if the GPO supports Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2–very important

Posted on February 6, 2011 by vbzine

One lesson learnt the hard way… That is why I must share this with everyone. If you think that all GPO settings supports different OS version with methodology –  a baseline version and above OS version under the “requirements”. Then … Continue reading →

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Active Directory and GPO – Going back to the Fundamental

Posted on November 7, 2010 by vbzine

Going back to fundamental When I say going back to fundamental, what I mean is actually – One should do proper design and planning before implementation. Active Directory Service During the past few months, I have been working on designing … Continue reading →

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