IT Knowledge Base » GPO http://patrick.eviltools.com daily life instructions Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:11:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How to get the Windows 7 GPO settings on a Windows 2008 Server http://patrick.eviltools.com/how-to-get-the-windows-7-gpo-settings-on-a-windows-2008-server/ http://patrick.eviltools.com/how-to-get-the-windows-7-gpo-settings-on-a-windows-2008-server/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:43:02 +0000 admin http://patrick.eviltools.com/how-to-get-the-windows-7-gpo-settings-on-a-windows-2008-server/ It is actually very easy to get Windows 7 GPO Settings on a Windows 2008 Server. You just need to copy the %systemroot%\PolicyDefinitions from your Windows 7 machine into \\YOURSERVER\C$\Windows\SYSVOL\YOURDOMAIN\Policies\PolicyDefinitions on your server. After that you start your policy editor and you will find it under the section administrative templates.

]]> http://patrick.eviltools.com/how-to-get-the-windows-7-gpo-settings-on-a-windows-2008-server/feed/ 0 GPO Commands you should know http://patrick.eviltools.com/gpo-commands-you-should-know/ http://patrick.eviltools.com/gpo-commands-you-should-know/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 13:34:30 +0000 admin http://patrick.eviltools.com/?p=223 gpupdate /force Forcing of refreshing the GPO Policy gpresult /v Print out of GPO Policy rsop.msc Showing the result of applied GPO in MMC gpedit.msc Local Group Policy MMC ]]> http://patrick.eviltools.com/gpo-commands-you-should-know/feed/ 0 Quick and dirty Installation of WSUS on Windows 2008 Server http://patrick.eviltools.com/quick-and-dirty-installation-of-wsus-on-windows-2008-server/ http://patrick.eviltools.com/quick-and-dirty-installation-of-wsus-on-windows-2008-server/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 13:25:04 +0000 admin http://patrick.eviltools.com/?p=220 Installation
1. Download it from http://www.microsoft.com/wsus
2. Make sure following roles are installed on the Server:

  • MS Internet Information Server 7
  • – ASP.NET
  • – 6.0 Management Compatibility
  • – IIS Metabase Compatibility
  • – Windows Authentication

And install Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005
[http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=70410]

3. Run the downloaded setup and follow the wizard

Configure WSUS so Computer are assigned via GPO
1. Open WSUS Console
2. Go to Computer/All Computers and create there a new Computer Group
3. Go to Options/Computers and choose “Use Group Policy or registry settings on computers.”
4. Open Group Policy Management Console
5. Create a New Group Policy and Link it to the right OU
6. WSUS Settings you will find in: Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update
7. Enable “intranet Microsoft update service location”
Intranet Update Service: http://yourwsusserver/
Intranet Statistics Server: http://yourwsusserver/
8. Enable “Client Side Targeting”
Target Group: Computer Group you created in WSUS (See step 3)
9. Check the other useful settings like Configure Automatic Updates and No Auto-Restart with logged on users
10. Restart one of the client computers and check if they are in WSUS Console listed in your new created computer group.

]]> http://patrick.eviltools.com/quick-and-dirty-installation-of-wsus-on-windows-2008-server/feed/ 3 Check if WSUS GPO is applied http://patrick.eviltools.com/check-if-wsus-gpo-is-applied/ http://patrick.eviltools.com/check-if-wsus-gpo-is-applied/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 12:27:01 +0000 admin http://patrick.eviltools.com/?p=219 The easiest way to find out if the group policy is applied and really changed the right settings you can check it in registry.

Go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

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