OneDrive GPO (Domain Group Policy)
OneDrive GPO KB ID 0001821 Problem The administrative template that you get with Win11 is somewhat out of date, so if you want to manage OneDrive with domain group policy your options are limited, if only there was a newer administrative template! Well, there is, and it gets updated and sent to you quite regularly. Microsoft just do a good job of hiding it. Solution OneDrive GPO Depending on your deployment the files you need can be...
UnifiedContent Folder ‘Growing’
UnifiedContent KB ID 0001820 Problem If you have a vanilla install of Exchange, it will clean up the UnifiedContent folder on a four hourly schedule. the problem occurs if you have moved your Exchanges ‘Queue” directory. This will also relocate the UnifiedContent folder, but then Exchange, will still try (and fail) to tidy it up in the original location, (because it’s not there anymore!) Typically, you will see your...
Restore the Windows 11 Right Click Menu
Windows 11 Right Click KB ID 0001819 Problem The first time I saw this I thought “Where’s cut/copy/paste gone?”. But more annoyingly ‘Send To” is also not on the initial menu! Solution: Restore Windows 11 Right Click Open an Administrative PowerShell window. Issue the following three commands. (New-Item ‘HKCU:\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32’...
Microsoft Edge Multiple Statup Pages (via GPO)
Microsoft Edge KB ID 0001818 Problem Controlling Microsoft Edge with Group Policy is pretty straight forward, you just need to ensure the msedge.admx and msedgeupdates.admx files have been added to your policy definitions store in the right folders. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, see the following article. Microsoft Edge on Server 2019/2016 (and Citrix) Then you can deploy group policies to your...
NameSpace ‘Microsoft.Policies.WindowsStore’ Error
Microsoft.Policies.WindowsStore KB ID 0001817 Problem While working in the Group Policy Management tool, upon expanding administrative templates I got this error. Namespace ‘Microsoft.Policies.WindowsStore’ is already defined as the target namespace for another file in the store. Solution: Microsoft.Policies.WindowsStore Error This is because in your policy definitions there are two (four actually) files that are pointing...