Managing IE Settings via GPO
KB ID 0001269 Problem There used to be a GPO called “Internet Explorer Maintenance” that you could set your Internet Explorer settings, i.e. Proxy server settings, home pages etc. This has now gone, and has been replaced with a group policy preference. Solution From the Group Policy Management Console > Locate the OU containing the USERS you want to link the policy to and create a new policy, then give it a sensible...
Group Policy To Throttle Network Speed via QoS
KB ID 0001217 Problem Why would you want to do this? Well what if you want to test slow link group policy processing, or you are testing BranchCache? Using Group policy you can ‘throttle’ traffic to and from a particular IP address. Below I will pick a domain client on 192.168.110.120, and throttle all traffic between that client, and the domain controller to be 100kbps. Solution As I sad above I’m throttling...
Windows BranchCache (Hosted and Distributed)
KB ID 0001212 Problem The purpose of BranchCache is, (as the name implies) to cache files in branch sites, without the need for a local file server or DFS. There are essentially two deployment models, In Hosted Mode a server in the branch caches the files locally as they are requested by clients. This works because the main file server provides a hash of the requested file, the branch server will download it, and if another client...
MS Office – Cannot Add Trusted Location
KB ID 0001171 Problem I was doing a Domain/Exchange/RDS migration for a client this week. He had some Macros that he used for printing. Now Macros are something I know very little about. So I had made it clear, if he had problems with them, I would not be the best person to ask. So when the call came in, that they were having problems with Macros I cringed! As it turned out, the problem wasn’t the Macros at all, it was the...
Event ID 1202
KB ID 0000123 Problem Security policies are propagated with warning. 0x5 : Access is denied. Please look for more details in Troubleshooting section in Security Help. This error typically occurs when the system has not been granted the correct permissions to update the access control list of a service. This may occur if the Administrator defines permissions for a service in a policy but does not grant the System account Full Control...