Have you ever spent time troubleshooting a problem only to discover that a computer or user wasn’t in the right security group? Shadow Groups (sometimes called dynamic security groups) can stop this problem! They work by automatically adding objects to a group based on a name, Organizational Unit, or another attribute. So get ready to embrace the dark side of Active Directory – we are about to set up some shadow security groups!
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Deploy Office 2013 with Group Policy – The Simple Way!
You would think that Microsoft would make it easy to deploy Office 2013 with Group Policy! Well, they don’t – at least not in a traditional sense. To quote Microsoft, “the setup architecture for Office 2013 uses multiple .msi files and the Office Setup program is an executable (.exe) file.” Smelling spin, I tried out Bing’s new Hidden Meaning Translator:
In this walk-through, we are going to deploy Office 2013 with Group Policy Scripts and try to retain a bit of our sanity. Here goes!