Software restriction policies are a great way to restrict certain program activity in your Windows domain.  They can be tremendously helpful in containing a malware outbreak or preventing them altogether, especially as we have seen with the recent Cryptolocker malware.  However, if you have run into an issue where a legitimate program is getting blocked …

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Let’s say you have a group policy object that you are applying to a group of users.  Maybe you have one user that is a member of this group that you would like to filter from receiving those group policy settings.  For instance a client was using a global group that had restricted settings for …

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In working with several networked environments, you frequently see a lot of weird errors that hit you from day to day.  If you have seen the error “Group Policy Client Service Failed the logon” you know what I am talking about.  If you have been looking for a resolution to this issue, I can tell …

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