Windows Group Policy (GPO) Explanation and Tutorials

I encountered a strange problem when applying new GPO settings on one of the computers. To diagnose the problem, I updated GPO settings manually using the gpupdate /force command and…

You can use Windows Update Delivery Optimization (WUDO) in Windows 10 to more efficiently distribute Windows updates (received through Windows Update or WSUS) and Configuration Manager packages in a corporate…

Windows Group Policy allows you to run various script files at a computer startup/shutdown or during user logon/logoff. You can use GPOs not only to run classic batch logon scripts…

When you connect a new USB device to your computer, Windows automatically detects the device and installs the appropriate driver. As a result, the user can use the connected USB…

To grant local administrator permissions on domain computers to technical support personnel, the HelpDesk team, certain users, and other privileged accounts, you must add the necessary Active Directory users or…

In this article, we will show how to install software on user computers in an Active Directory domain using GPO. The built-in Windows GPO features allow you to deploy programs…

By default, when you create new Active Directory users, they are automatically added to the Domain Users group. In its turn, the Domain Users group is added to the local…

GPO logon scripts allow you to run a BAT or PowerShell script at computer startup or user logon/logoff. In some cases, an administrator wants a particular script (command/program) to be…

You can use Microsoft Office administrative templates (ADMX) to centrally manage the settings of MS Office programs (Word, Excel. Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, etc.) in the Active Directory domain using Group…

The Group Policy Central Store is located in the SYSVOL directory on the domain controllers, replicated between them, and used to store ADMX/ADML GPO template files used to manage Active…