Tag: GPO
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Prevent Edge desktop shortcut CSP-style
If you are synchronizing your Windows 10 with OneDrive and reinstalling the computer a couple of times you will notice you have multiple Microsoft Edge shortcuts on the desktop. This is the CSP way to prevent Edge from creating a desktop shortcut. First, fire up the device management portal (I prefer to use this instead of…
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Handle unmanaged Office settings as an Intune expert
In EU countries we have some additional challenges, due to regulations. Some of these are not managed via group polices, there is a need for scripting, or group policy preferences. One example is the “Choose default file type” when you open an Office application for the first time. In the new modern era of Intune…
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Extra registry settings? Need access to old group policy settings?
Ever seen extra registry settings in your group policy manager console? This most likely came when you updated your ADMX templates with new Windows 10 templates, but no worries your settings are not lost! The settings will still apply on the supported operating system, but if you want to change the setting? Do I…
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Group Policy WMI filters for Windows 7/8/8.1/10
Every now and then during Windows 10 deployments we need to use WMI filters for group policy objects, there are simply no better way of doing this, without a lot of work. WMI is simple to use and demands little maintenance. There WMI filters may also come handy since there are group policy settings that…
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How do I customize the default file associations?
I don’t know how many times I got the question “How do I customize the file associations in Windows 10?”. The old commands assoc and ftype, does work, but not as you would expect, those simply works better in Windows XP, 7 environments. So what choice do we have to customize the default file associations…
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Using Group Policy WMI filters? Computers booting slow?
In general terms I never recommend to use WMI filters with Group Policy Object, and there are many reasons for this including When WMI database is corrupt the filter may deliver a inconsistent result ServiceDesk may not understand when a GPO should apply and not May slow down computer startups May slow down logon phases…
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List Group Policy Client Side Extensions, CSEs, from Windows 10
I simply discovered from earlier posts that there was no list of the CSEs of Windows 10 available, so what did I do? I simple created a list. First of all, I installed a Windows 10 Enterprise 64-bit operating system in my Hyper-V lab and added some applications that my customers generally use. Microsoft Visual…
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Failed to apply group policy? {F312195E-3D9D-447A-A3F5-08DFFA24735E}
I recently in my lab environment discovered a group policy error that was quite interesting, I only got the error for some of my Windows 10 machines, so I started to investigate. In the end this was a total unnecessary troubleshooting, but during the time I learned that there are several CSEs not documented, there…
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Nice old trick, Create reports of Group Policy Objects
Just a quick post of how to create HTML or XML reports of your Group Policy Objects with PowerShell. First make sure you are logged onto a host where the Group Policy Management, GPMC, and Active Directory Cmdlets are installed. First define the logged on current domain $domain = [System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.Domain]::GetCurrentDomain() To create the reports use…
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Group policy error: Microsoft.Polices.WindowsStore
Seems like new Group policies templates/ADMX are generating new errors when you edit your GPO’s. “Namespace ‘Microsoft.Polices.WindowsStore’ is already defined as the target namespace for another file in the store. File \\domain\sysvol\domain\Polices\PolicyDefinitions\WinStoreUI.admx, line 4, column 80″ This errors is generate because there are two or more template/ADMX files that are referring to Windows Store settings.…
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