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Russell Smith shows us how to create and link a Group Policy Object in Active Directory in this step-by-step how-to article.

As you make the move from Microsoft on-premises infrastructure to the cloud, you’ll move from Group Policy management of your endpoints to MDM management.  This move isn’t always a “lift and shift” process because there isn’t always a 1-to-1 relationship between the settings available in Group Policy and those in Intune.  Additionally, you need to…

Russell Smith shows us how to easily back up and restore Group Policy Objects with the help of PowerShell.

Got control issues? In this tutorial, learn to disable Adobe Reader XI updates using the ever-handy Group Policy.

Daniel Petri shows us how to manage local Active Directory groups with Group Policy Preferences, which lets us create, delete, update, and rename local groups.

MC666964 – As an admin, you use policies to control Microsoft Teams features that are available to users in your organization. To easily manage different types of user needs, Teams provides group policy assignment, which lets you assign custom policies to user groups.  Effective policy for a user is determined by precedence rules. If a user…

Daniel Petri walks us through the steps on managing local Active Groups with the help of Group Policy Restricted Groups.

In this post, Michael Simmons explains the functions of the Administrative Templates for Group Policy Objects in Windows Server, specifically, Server 2008 R2. These templates allow a huge range of customization of settings for administrators configuring computers and users in Active Directory.

Download Group Policy ADM Files for all Microsoft Operating Systems Administrative Template files are used to populate user interface settings in the Group Policy Object Editor, enabling administrators to manage registry-based policy settings. Each successive Windows operating system and service pack includes a newer version of these .adm files. Note: In the upcoming Windows Vista…

MC494735 – Note: This change only impacts Visio 2021 LTSC. If your organization is not using this version, you can disregard this message. Microsoft Visio is announcing the retirement of the Translate and LookUp features for Visio 2021 LTSC. With this group policy update Microsoft will give admins the ability to turn off these features….