Tag: Group Policy Preferences

What’s Wrong with Group Policy

Over the years I have worked with Group Policy in many different ways. My experience ranges from helping an enterprise client establish a brand new set of policies for physical PCs and VDI machines to authoring ADM/ADMX/ADML files. Last year I presented and wrote a very detailed analysis of the impact of Group Policy on […]

by Helge on Jun 15, 2016

Windows General

How Group Policy Impacts Logon Performance #3: WMI Filters & ILT

This article is based on my Citrix Synergy 2015 session and is the third in a mini-series on Group Policy performance. All measurements by uberAgent on Windows Server 2012 R2 with Citrix XenApp 7.6 in a steady state. Please start reading with the first article.

by Helge on Jan 19, 2016

Performance/Sizing

How Group Policy Impacts Logon Performance #2: Internals

This article is based on my Citrix Synergy 2015 session and is the second in a mini-series on Group Policy performance. All measurements by uberAgent on Windows Server 2012 R2 with Citrix XenApp 7.6 in a steady state. Please start reading with the first article.

by Helge on Dec 8, 2015

Performance/Sizing

Solved: Disabling the BitLocker Service via GPP Fails

If you want to disable the BitLocker service via Group Policy Preferences, you will find that you cannot. The service’s startup mode stays at “manual” and the following event is logged to the application event log: Type: Warning Source: Group Policy Services Event ID: 4098 User: SYSTEM Text: ... error code 0x80070005 access denied ... […]

by Helge on Apr 17, 2012

Permissions

Group Policy Preferences: Why Windows Server 2008 Will Change the Way You Work

I confess: I like group policies. They are and have always been a great way of managing computer and user settings ever since their conception and introduction with Windows 2000. Of course, at the beginning management tools were nonexistent. But we were so happy not to have to rely on NT4’s system policies any more […]

by Helge on Nov 27, 2007

Windows General