Microsoft has bolstered its group-policy desktop management offering with the acquisition of New Hampshire software vendor DesktopStandard. Under the terms of the cash deal, Microsoft is acquiring the ...

Windows lets you use the Group Policy to define user and computer configurations for groups of users and computers. With the Group Policy snap-in you can specify policy settings for the following: ...

My take on desktop shortcuts is that applications that are machine-specific and not standard across the board, should have shortcuts in All Users instead of the user's profile. Applications that are ...

Some technologists have described Group Policy as one of the best features within Microsoft’s Active Directory software. Group Policy, which is supported on Windows 2000, Server 2003 and XP, enables ...

Microsoft Monday moved to improve its portfolio of management tools by acquiring DesktopStandard, which develops software that uses group policy for managing computers. DesktopStandard develops a ...

Mozilla has shipped the support for Windows Group Policy Support. Mozilla Firefox uses autoconfig files that support an automatic configuration system for Firefox installations and hence this makes it ...