Archive for October, 2008

Things to check when your Password Policy doesn’t apply

[ for environments with DFL < Windows Server 2008 that can’t use Fine-Grained PassPolicies ]
Here’s a short list of things you should check if you’re encountering trouble with your Password Policy settings (they don’t get applied).
 # 1 Is your Password Policy linked at the domain level?
Have you linked it to the domain? If not, you […]

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Red/green underlining explained

For those who still find themselves in confusion about the red/green underlining feature, the Group Policy Team at Microsoft (thanks Lilia!) posted two articles that should make this feature clear:
Part I: http://blogs.technet.com/grouppolicy/archive/2008/10/13/red-green-gp-preferences-doesn-t-work-even-though-the-policy-applied-and-after-gpupdate-force.aspx
Part II: http://blogs.technet.com/grouppolicy/archive/2008/10/20/red-green-underlining-continued-using-preferences-to-set-ie-settings-like-preference-or-like-policy.aspx

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Need information about the Registry?

This morning I got an email from Jon. You probably know Jon. Well, I didn’t before — but Jon was so kind to inform me about his new cool website about the Windows Registry. I “surfed” it and whooohoo - cool. Jon actually “mirrors” the registry on his website and lets you browse through the […]

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