Deploying a WSUS environment with GPO

WSUS or Windows Server Update Services is used on a local network to approve or reject Windows updates and security fixes. The benefits of this system of delivering updates is that it allows you as much or as little control over updates as you want. It’s all about choice. So if you do not want the Windows... Continue Reading →

October 20, 2015 3

Use GPO to set user as a local administrator on a single computer.

This is a revision of a previous post I did. In this version there are fewer steps that need to be performed in the policy. The key here is Item Level targeting, it allows you to apply policies to specific targets in your Active Directory. In this case the target would be a specific computer. Open up your... Continue Reading →

July 24, 2014 16

Use GPO to add a single admin user to only one computer on the domain.

UPDATE: This post has some great ideas, however if you'd like an easier way to accomplish this with Item-level targeting navigate to this new post. This post I'm going to detour from the usual Home Theatre write up. I still have more Home Theatre to go through, however I though I would give this topic a... Continue Reading →