[gptalk] Re: starter GPOs
- From: "Cruz, Jerome L" <jerome.l.cruz@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:29:36 -0700
Hi Darren,
Not yet... however we do plan to use them. So I'll give you a 'starter',
starter GPO. Our Enterprise Multi-user Technology folks have a model where they
centrally design the standard Windows Terminal Server GPOs. The actual
consumers (the distributed GPO Admin for the terminal servers) then use that as
a "starting point" GPO. We plan to use "Starter GPOs" for that.
Considering that many of our server images are based upon selection of a
scripted Server Role (Base Image + Specific Server role), programmatically
being able to add the GPO to the correct server OU location would be helpful.
From that 'scripting' standpoint, other helpful options would be the ability to
detect whether a starter GPO was already linked to an OU (and therefore a new
one would not be required) by one of several attributes (e.g. possibly full
name or partial GPO Name lookup, possibly the option to look up a special GPO
SYSVOL file tag-possibly a specific file added to the GPO in SYSVOL indicating
the specific kind of GPO that exists, perhaps a full or partial text string
look up in the comments section, etc.). Also the ability to change the default
"Edit" permissions to that of a security group (which contains the OU level
'group' of folks which 'should have' access-the point being to eliminate one
additional manual configuration step).
Let's see if the info above initiates additional ideas.
Bueller here... no, I mean... Jerry Cruz here
Group Policies Product Manager | Boeing IT
From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Darren Mar-Elia
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 3:31 PM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] starter GPOs
Hey folks-
As many of you know, I have some free PowerShell cmdlets that I provide that
wrap the GPMC APIs. I'm looking at updating those for some of the new GPMC
features and am trying to figure out if anyone out there is actually using
Starter GPOs? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? :)
Thanks,
Darren
Darren Mar-Elia
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