Group Policy Infrastructure in Windows: Today and Tomorrow

Kurt Roggen — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:45:02 GMT

It has been a while now since my last talk/presentation at TechDays 2009 and I wanted to share with you the content of that presentation.
As you can see, it’s all about Group Policies in Windows. You can find the topics covered during the presentation below.
I received a lot of great feedback, so I hope you enjoy it too!

Download here.

Today

Group Policy

ADMX-based Administrative templates
Central Store
GPO Filtering
Multiple Local Group Policies (MLGPO)
Starter GPOs
Group Policy Comments
New Group Policy extensions (+2500)

Group Policy Preferences (GPP)

Rich UI
Rich Item-level Targeting
Action modes
Processing order
Reporting
Logging & Troubleshooting
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT)
Some GPP Scenario’s

Printer scripts
Environment variables
Power schemes
Password changes
Registry updates
Folder Options & Start Menu UI

Tomorrow

Group Policy

RSAT Windows 7
New Group Policy Editor UI
New Starter GPOs
Powershell support

Powershell & GPO Scripts

New Group Policy extensions

Application Control using AppLocker
Advanced System Auditing

Group Policy Preferences

New Group Policy Preferences extensions

Power Plans, Scheduled Tasks, Immediate Task, IE8

Related reading:

Group Policy TechNet page - http://www.microsoft.com/technet/grouppolicy
Group Policy Team Blog - http://blogs.technet.com/grouppolicy
Group Policy Wiki - http://grouppolicy.editme.com

White papers:

Group Policy Settings Reference Windows Vista - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=54020
Deploying Group Policy Using Windows Vista - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=77080
How to troubleshoot Group Policy using Event logs - http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=74139

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Kurt Roggen — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:27:00 GMT

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Group Policy Infrastructure in Windows: Today and Tomorrow

Today

Tomorrow

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