Change Management Using AGPM
Keeping track of Group Policy changes can be a daunting task if done manually. Luckily, Microsoft’s AGPM utility makes this process a whole lot easier.
Category Archives: Group Policy
Configuring Windows Update via GPO
Much to the appeal of network administrators everywhere, windows update settings for individual computers can be set via group policy. Here is how to do it.
Disable Enumeration of SID’s
One way for an attacker to scope out a target system and, particularly, to identify the Administrator account so they can focus their efforts on the account with the most privileges is to list, or enumerate, the SID”s (serial identifiers) on a Windows machine.
How to disable Vista’s Setup log
Windows Vista includes a Setup log which can be viewed and analyzed using Event Viewer. By default new Setup events generated are added to this log, but you can disable this functionality using local Group Policy as follows: