HowTo: Attach via Group Policy and PowerShell taskbar items and solve

In this extensively tested HowTo is about, in a Windows domain with Windows 7 Elemente customers (Shortcuts) on the taskbar automatically via Group Policy or adhere to can also solve. This can be realized with a PowerShell script (.ps1) and GPO, that when the user logs, The script starts.

Windows PowerShell

This howto therefore includes the following points:

  1. PowerShell script for attaching elements
  2. Powershell scripts allow for testing
  3. PowerShell script to release of elements
  4. Path for x86 and x64
  5. Create a Group Policy to distribute the PowerShell scripts
  6. More Links

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HowTo: Group Policy assignment with safety control groups

Group Policy can be classically assigned for each organizational unit. It was now the challange a group policy to assign only certain computer accounts. These computer accounts but were in different organizational units.

First, I create a new GPO in the "Group Policy Objects".

By clicking on the Group Policy (here 1_GPO_Test) appears on the right side of the Group Policy Editor, the details and settings.

In the "Security Filtering" is already an entry called "Authenticated Users" available. This is already a security group.

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