gpo

Make C# application Group Policy aware

I want to make my app GPO aware. I know that it's basically just reading from a specific registry path but I still have some questions: How do I detect GPO refreshes? There's RegisterGPNotification here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa374404(VS.85).aspx but is there anything ready baked for C# out there or at Microsoft? What...

Active Directory user password expiration date .net /OU Group Policy

Hello, I have searched the site for information and found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1362977/asp-net-c-active-directory-see-how-long-before-a-users-password-expires which explains how to get the value of when the password expires as per Domain Policy. My question is this: what if the user has an OU Group Policy that has a...

Microsoft Security Compliance Manager

I'd like to provide some background before I pose my question so please, bear with me. I have come across Microsoft's Security Compliance Manager. It's rather new to me and as I understand so far, one can download EC (enterprise) or SSLF (specialized security, limited function) security "baseline" GPOs for implementation in Active Dire...