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What is Group Policy and how does it work? Windows Active Directory naming best practices? What should the order of DNS servers be for an AD Domain Controller and Why? …

(this started as a comment on Ryan's post, but it got too long, so now it's an answer) The way SE staff handled this situation was an absolute nightmare. If one is going to be a Community Manager, th …

Today, 5th June, is the beginning of a strike by many StackExchange moderators over the recent policy announcement by StackExchange staff around handling AI and Large Language Model (LLM) generated content … The strikers will be ceasing moderation activities until this policy is reversed. Also of note, this includes halting the SmokeDetector anti-spam bot. …

One topic I am seeing a lot of the election page, and in meta threads, and in the site in general, is the idea that moderators should be running around slamming close votes on every question that does …

In the very beginning, as you found out, SF was a site created by devopsy people as a way to create a community that didn't have all the problems of those that came before it in very much the same way …

Even though most of my SCCM questions went unanswered, I saw that I could help others w/ their sccm problems, and got help w/ group policy and other things, so it was a valid tradeoff. …

through the review queues and hunt for unix-y questions that are interesting enough to answer (sadly less frequent than my trips through the queues lately), but here's my three-fiddy: We've long had a policy … We've also long had a policy about commercial software ("Call your fucking vendor because that's what you're paying them for!" …

Do you need to be in control of policy, or is it enough to know your job (as a sysadmin)? …

We explicitly prohibit questions regarding circumventing corporate IT policies, so questions such as the one about using an ssh tunnel to bypass a corporate egress firewall should not be answered, but …

Do you need to be in control of policy, or is it enough to know your job (as a sysadmin)? … And, it's a very thin gray line between circumventing another department's complacency and circumventing policy or breaching security. …

is essentially a question about circumventing corporate policy for personal use. …

I think that as a community, we have some conflicting opinions, and need have some discussion to see if we can come to a sensible consensus - whether this is a policy we have (and put it in the FAQ if …

So I'm wondering if SE has a general policy/viewpoint on this... serial downvoting gets reversed reasonably quickly, does or should serial close-voting? …

familiar enough with your workload to make capacity suggestions, and though we may occasionally recommend specific products/services incidentally in answering a question it is Stack Exchange network policy … It's also general (though loosely enforced) policy network-wide that comments about "why was my post downvoted?" …

As an example, I would re-write your group policy question like this: I have two policies which are supposed to modify the setting, and the they do not seem to be proccessed the way I believe they … Checking Group Policy results on a machine shows shows three GPO applications, in the following sequence: first the Authenticated Users GPO, then the Domain Admins GPO, then the Authenticated Users …