Disable “Ease of access” Settings from the Windows Logon Screen via GPO
Nov17

Disable “Ease of access” Settings from the Windows Logon Screen via GPO

KB ID 0000462  Problem Did a migration of a school the other week, afterwards it seems the “little darlings” had discovered that they could (from the logon screen) access the “Ease of access” settings and enable “High Contrast”, which is obviously hilarious, but annoying for their teachers. Ease of Access, is designed as part of the accessibility options, and as such has no GPO settings, (I’m...

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Change the default Shutdown / Log Off Option via GPO
Nov17

Change the default Shutdown / Log Off Option via GPO

KB ID 0000465  Problem Out of the box, the default power option presented to your users is shutdown. People with multiple users on their machines, may prefer the log off option to be the default. Note: You can also set the default option to: Shutdown Sleep Log off Lock Restart Switch User (Unless blocked by other policy then it will revert to shutdown). Hibernate   Solution 1. On your domain controller , Start > Administrative...

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Windows  Disable UAC  Thorough Group Policy
Nov17

Windows Disable UAC Thorough Group Policy

KB ID 0000041 Problem UAC (User Account Control) – while a good thing, sometimes causes more annoyances than solves problems, to turn it of through group policy do the following. Solution This Policy is a Computer based policy and needs to be applied to Computers NOT Users. Disable UAC On Windows Server 2008 / 2008 R2 Domain With Group Policy 1. On a domain controller or a client running the remote administration tools >...

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Disable High Contrast with Group PolicyDisable Accessibility Options with Group Policy
Nov17

Disable High Contrast with Group PolicyDisable Accessibility Options with Group Policy

KB ID 0000472  Problem A few weeks back I wrote about a client who was having problems with kids at his school launching the ease of access button from the login screen. And how I disabled the ease of access button. High Contrast After a site visit it seems that the “little darlings” had now worked out that by pressing “Alt+Shift+Print Screen” they could turn on high contrast. And this, which is obviously...

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Enable The “Remote Registry Service” through Group Policy
Nov17

Enable The “Remote Registry Service” through Group Policy

KB ID 0000488  Problem I was rolling out Trend Worry Free Business Security this week, and to send out the client software all the client machines needed the remote registry service enabled. That’s great but it’s set to manual startup be default. As I didn’t want to visit each machine I wanted to do this through group policy. Solution 1. On a domain controller, Start > administrative tools > Group Policy Editor...

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