I'm afraid it hasn't improved. The limitations I discussed still apply with all of the latest patches on Win 7 and 2008 R2 etc.
Having said that a lot of the Win 7 features do have group policy options. However, GPP in particular is limited. I've even come across things that worked under XP but don't under Win 7 (Shortcuts created via GPP pointing to mapped network drives fail. The ugly workaround is to run a gpupdate in a logon script so effectively gpupdates is run twice!). It's not all bad though, for example the ability to hide a mapped drive never worked for me in XP but it does under Windows 7 :) -----Original Message----- From: Don Guyer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2010 11:39 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 - Libraries I find this a bit disheartening, as we will be rolling out W7 boxes in the not too distant future. Has this improved since the timeframe you mentioned here? Did this by any chance have to do with one particular server O/S? IIRC Server 2k3 was a little less "equipped" for W7 GPOs than W2k8. Of course, I could be thinking of something totally unrelated. That happens before 2nd round of coffee. :) Don Guyer Systems Engineer - Information Services Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Direct: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610) 650-5306 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: James Hill [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 6:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 - Libraries The lack of control of Windows 7 features via GP was less than amusing at Teched here last year. Obviously it was all about how good Win 7 was and during a session on Group Policy they harped on about how many new GP's there were. They didn't mention that the Win 7 features and the new Group Policies often didn't match up :) -----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2010 2:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Windows 7 - Libraries What they call "meeting the bar" for new _core OS_ feature content in a service pack is very high, especially since the Vista reset. This is why we've seen some things decoupled - such as IIS, which comes with the OS but has been updated independently during the last several release cycles. We might see new GPs in a SP, but I doubt they'll add much in terms of functionality during a SP to _core OS_ features (and I consider AD and GP processing to be core OS, I haven't investigated this particular issue in the SP1 beta myself - not one of my particular interests). Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows 7 - Libraries On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > I joked earlier about them coming in Service Packs, but that hasn't > been customary for Windows OS in a while. Maybe a feature pack? It'll be in Update Rollup 2 to Feature Pack 1. ;-) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
