I don’t see a group policy setting for this, so you will need to use a User Registry Group Policy Preference. If you want it to behave like a traditional Registry group policy, you may want to consider checking the box for “remove this item when it no longer applies”. If you want it to … Read more
Since I have almost no rep, I can’t ask questions yet, so I’ll attempt to ask a question whilst posting an answer and hope I don’t get canned. 😉 I’m going to assume that you’ve insured that the GPO portion of this case is a non-issue, by testing this GPO against a “traditional” UNC share … Read more
Disabling the option “Enable third-party browser extensions” under Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced (or Control Panel -> Internet Options) successfully disables most browser bars while still allowing the typical plugins (Java, Flash, etc). If I recall correctly you can control this option in GP. Setting can be found under ‘User Configuration -> Policies -> … Read more
What can be done to properly re-enable the Windows firewall on a domain? Well, the short answer is that it’s going to be a lot of work if you decide to forge ahead, and for the record, I’m not sure I would. In the general case, client firewalls don’t provide much security in a corporate … Read more
Webcache is part of WinINET and is loaded before IE (as other WinINET. To stop the caching you need to tell WinINET to stop caching. Credit to http://www.tenforums.com/general-support/37841-disable-webcachev01-dat.html First, stop the following task in task scheduler: Microsoft > Windows > Wininet Second step is to delete the dcom REGEDIT search for this GUID:{3EB3C877-1F16-487C-9050-104DBCD66683} Delete this … Read more
There are a few different ways to do it. Do you want to force everyone’s home page, and disallow changes? Or do you just want to set a default home page that people can modify? If you want to force a home page: (Do what HopelessN00b said) Create a new GPO or edit the existing … Read more
In the menu bar, if you go to File->Properties. The properties dialog shows the zone for that page.
I would just like to get on my auto-reboot soapbox for a second: it’s been my experience that automatically/forcing a reboot is generally a bad idea. We system admins often have somewhat of a complex about making sure the latest patch has been applied the second it’s installed because OMG until then the system is … Read more
It looks like there is no Administrative Template for managing this setting; as documented, Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Shutdown\Require use of fast startup can only be used to enforce it, not to disable it (WTF?!? It’s already enabled by default… they could at least have gone a bit further and turn this setting into a true on/off … Read more
It’s not possible to disable the firewall notifications alone, but since Windows 10 build 1607 it has been possible to disable all Security and Maintenance Notifications using HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\Settings\Windows.SystemToast.SecurityAndMaintenance\Enabled = 0 (DWORD) UPDATE: According to Ladislav Louka, the required value has changed to 1 since build 1809. Either add this registry key directly via Group Policy … Read more