Make C# application Group Policy aware

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Published on 2010-06-14T17:33:59Z Indexed on 2010/06/14 19:52 UTC
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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's considered best practice: is the machine policy stronger than the user policy or is the user policy overruling the machine policy?
Anyone, who wants to share some experience in that area?

Thanks, Stefan

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