Recently on applying all computer group policy settings on a client, I was receiving the following error message: The client-side extension could not remove computer policy settings for ‘Group Policy Object Name{Unique ID}’ because it failed with error code ‘0x8007000d The data is invalid.’ See trace file for more details. The cause of the error would … More Group Policy Error 0x8007000d
In order to remote manage your remote computers using Windows Powershell, there is a requirement to enable the WinRM service on each target. This may be enabled by browsing to the below group policy setting path and enabling ‘Allow automatic configuration of listeners: Computer Configuration/Policies/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows Remote Management (WinRM)/WinRM Service You may restrict the … More Enabling WinRM service using Group Policy
I was recently looking to schedule approved updates from Windows Update Server and schedule updates with finer granularity than those provided by the Windows Update Services client. I discovered a command line utility called WuInstall (http://www.wuinstall.com/index.php/en) which allows for updates to be installed on demand. As part of this solution, I still required updates to … More Patch Management with Windows Update Server and WuInstall
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