GPEdit.MSC – why doesn’t it show changes I made to the registry?

That’s a question that came up a couple of times in the past, so I thought I’d write a few words about it. The question is:
“When I make changes to the registry that correspond to a Group Policy Setting, why doesn’t show GPEdit.msc (the GPEditor) the changed setting?”
That is due to how Windows applies GP […]

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ADM template for IE7’s phishing filter

I must admin I haven’t used the new IE7 ADM templates much. In fact I don’t configure IE settings very often since our infrastructure allows us to leave people free in their choice of configuring IE to their wishes.
To my surprise, a guy in the newsgroups came to ask how one would configure the phishing […]

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Why aren’t policy settings removed when I remove an ADM template from Group Policy Editor?

This is a question that a fellow-admin asked me. She was configuring some test settings on a test-OU and was messing around with a custom ADM template she wrote for a third party application. After she had tested the template and the client would reflect the changes that she made, she removed the template from […]

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