The Group Policy Management Console -- also known as the GPMC or Group Policy Management Editor -- is used to configure permissions and settings in Windows Server 2008. It is one of the easiest ways ...

NetPro last week bolstered its security and compliance suite for Microsoft’s Active Directory with software that lets users delegate who can set and change policies used to manage desktops and servers ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Microsoft's emerging Nano Server deployment option can't be managed using Group Policy controls, the company noted this week, in an announcement. Nano Server is Microsoft's minimal-footprint option ...

Group policies have been a core component of Windows Server and Active Directory for decades, and yet it never ceases to amaze me how many different philosophies there are with regard to group ...

When Microsoft introduced group policy objects (GPOs) along with Windows Server 2000 nearly 17 years ago, they were an exciting new approach to managing user and system permissions. Today, they’re ...

To run this tool, open an elevated Command Prompt, type the following, and hit Enter: To force apply only the changed policies, type or copy-paste the following command, and hit Enter: In Windows ...

If the changes made by you using Group Policy Editor are not reflected on the client machine, and you receive errors that may point to the fact that your Windows system is not able to read Group ...

Microsoft, last week, released the Windows Patch Tuesday security updates for both Windows 10 and Windows 11. The former (KB5031356) has been causing installation ...