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Leveraging Group Policy Preferences Item-Level Targeting from “Downlevel” Group Policy

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Recently I’ve had some conversations with folks that related to their irritation that “legacy” Group Policy settings such as Admin. Templates, Security Settings, Software Installation, etc. could not benefit from the fine-grained “Item-Level-Targeting” (ILT) feature that is available with Group Policy Preferences settings. Most of us Group Policy MVPs have had this on our wish list for a while, and, understanding GP structure and internals the way I do, I realized that this would not be an easy fix for ...

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Performing Bulk GPO Renames

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Someone recently asked about the best way to perform bulk GPO renames. Of course, there are probably many reasons why you would want to do this (e.g. moving to a standard naming convention, cleaning up mis-named GPOs, etc.) but for my money, there is one technology that makes this easy–PowerShell!

There are (at least) two ways to do this in PowerShell, depending upon which version of Windows you have. If you are in a Windows 7 or Server 2008-R2 world, then the ...

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Nominate Our GP Products for a Community Award!

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HEY GPOGUY & SDM SOFTWARE FANS!! We need your help! Windows IT Pro Magazine is having their COMMUNITY AWARDS NOMINATIONS until this Friday, August 14th. If you like the freeware products we have on www.gpoguy.com and on www.sdmsoftware.com/freeware, please consider nominating your favorite SDM Software or GPOGUY freeware products in the BEST Active Directory and Group Policy PRODUCT category. Let’s show the world that FREEWARE is just as valuable as the commercial products costing thousands of dollars, that ...

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SpecOps GPUpdate 2.0 Ships

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Just a quick update to my previous blog posting to let you all know that the 2.0 version of GPUpdate has shipped from SpecOps:

http://www.specopssoft.com/products/specopsgpupdate/

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