You can use Group Policy to add Active Directory users and groups to the local Administrators group on domain-joined servers and workstations. This allows you to grant local admin privileges…
CoreyFebruary 15, 2021
All Windows admins know that after a computer or a user is added to an Active Directory security group, new permissions to access domain resources…
CoreyOctober 28, 2020
Suppose you want to use the Firefox browser to open .HTML files on all domain computers (you want to associate this file extension with the app). To…
CoreyJuly 6, 2020
On Windows workstations and servers, especially on RDS (Remote Desktop Services) servers, there is a regular need to remove old (unused) user profiles from C:\Users.…
CoreyApril 20, 2020
In a Active Directory domain, you can centrally manage and customize Start Menu and Taskbar Layout on Windows 10 users’ computers using Group Policy. This…
CoreyApril 1, 2020
Let’s look at how to automatically install and connect printers to specific users, computers and groups in an Active Directory domain using Group Policy (GPO).…
CoreyMarch 30, 2020
In this post I will cover typical reasons why a Group Policy object (GPO) may not be applied to an organizational unit (OU), specific computer…
CoreyFebruary 26, 2020
In this article we’ll cover the Chrome Group Policy administrative templates (admx), provided by Google, that allow you to centrally manage browser settings in an…
CoreyFebruary 19, 2020
NTLM (NT LAN Manager) has been used as the basic Microsoft authentication protocol for quite a long time: since Windows NT. Although Microsoft introduced a more…
CoreyFebruary 3, 2020
Let’s consider how to deploy the same desktop background image (wallpaper) on all Windows workstations in the Active Directory domain using Group Policies. As a…
CoreyJanuary 1, 2020
Windows Firewall allows to restrict inbound/outbound network traffic for a certain application, protocol or a TCP/IP port. This is an easy way to restrict network…
CoreyDecember 25, 2019
Let’s look on how to centrally deploy an SSL certificate on domain computers and add it to the Trusted Root Certification Authorities using Group Policy. After the certificate is deployed,…
CoreyDecember 18, 2019
In this article, we will look at how to use Group Policy (GPO) to centrally create, modify, import and delete any registry keys on domain-joined…
CoreyDecember 13, 2019
Group Policy allows you to run various script files at a computer startup/shutdown or during user logon/logout. You can use GPOs not only to run…
CoreyNovember 27, 2019