FYI everyone. GPtalk List member will be giving a BoF session on Group Policy at the upcoming TechEd conference in Orlando this coming June. Check it out! Thanks Jerry. Darren From: Cruz, Jerome L [mailto:jerome.l.cruz@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:43 PM To: Darren Mar-Elia Subject: Group Policy "Best Practices" Birds of a Feather Session at TechEd 2008 on June 13th Darren, I thought I'd let you know that I have another GPO "Birds of a Feather" session set up at TechEd 2008 (IT Pro Week). Here's the description for the session this year. Please feel free to forward to the GPO Admin community. BOF920 Let's Get Real: What Are "The" Best Practices for Windows Group Policies? Friday, June 13 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Moderator: Jerome (Jerry) Cruz Session Type: Birds of a Feather 3000+ configurable settings with Windows Server 2008 (and almost that many with Windows Vista) and now they add Group Policy Preference Extensions, why that's 21 "brand new" sets of things to configure. What's an Admin to do and where do we start? Should I script it or build an ADM template? Or is that an ADMX template? Any pros or cons to choosing between them? Can I set something up with a GPO, but still allow my users to have "some" choice? How do I do that? Rocket Science seems easier than this. So, last year we talked about what new things we wanted in the area of Group Policies. Well, we got a lot of it, now what can we do with it? Let's discuss what the "New Best Practices" for Group Policies are! Jerry Cruz | Group Policies Product Manager | Boeing IT | 425-865-6755