Server 2008 R2: Group Policy Settings on Steroids!

Another cool feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 which is Group Policy related is the new “look” of all Group Policy settings. You can see the Group Policy team shifted a few things around. What’s really cool is that you don’t have this tabbing thing any more. Comments and the explain tab are all in […]

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I can’t create new Group Policies. It says “Access denied”

That problem came up twice in the last week, so here’s the blog post about it.
Besides the problems with insufficient permissions that might somehow occur (have you messed with the SYSVOL share’s permissions lately?), there are a number of other events that let Windows throw this error message:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/839499/en-us
It might sometimes add an event message to […]

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“the pasted document is invalid and will be ignored” when importing a Preference setting

Importing and exporting Group Policy Preference items is really, _really_ easy. It’s as easy as drag&dropping the setting from the Group Policy Editor directly into a folder or right-clicking the setting and choosing “Copy” and later “Paste”.
In those Technet Forums, there was a guy reporting that Group Policy Preference “Scheduled Tasks” wouldn’t work. He created […]

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