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It was just over two years ago that I was chatting with Charles Carroll about starting a community blogging site. He always pushed me to run community sites and one of my first being the successful ADSI and Directory Services Programming group that I...
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As many of you know, I've started a Group Policy Management Solutions company called SDM Software . I've decided to transition my blog over to there, since it makes sense for me in the long run. So, if you are currently reading or subscribing to my blog...
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One of the folks on my gptalk mailing list reported an issue with the new Windows 2003 SP2 and custom ADMs. Apparently if these custom ADMs are not terminated with a carriage return/line feed character, they will throw an Error 51: “Unexpected keyword.”...
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As I've mentioned here before,my company, SDM Software , is focused on making Group Policy a lot easier for folks to manage. Given the criticality of Group Policy as a security and desktop lockdown technology, making sure its healthy and functional has...
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The Windows IT Pro folks, whom I write for on occasion, are doing a Longhorn Roadshow this Spring to help folks get up to speed on the new server platform. There's also a cool contest where you test your skills about Longhorn to win a trip to Mexico....
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I thought this was pretty cool: http://blogs.technet.com/billcan/archive/2007/03/10/beta-version-of-tool-for-enforcing-efs-encryption-is-shipping-next-week.aspx Essentially a better tool for enforcing EFS encryption for your mobile users. EFS is Encrypted...
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Thank goodness they here!!!!! For us using NVIDIA graphic cards (GeForce 5200) and running Vista have been quite tempered with the late release of their Vista certified drivers. But not to worry. As from last month (20 February to be exact) they' ve released...
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I suppose its no great revelation to anyone that the Internet is now THE source for information gathering and information dissemination in our society. And its well documented how folks have been able to use the Internet for all sorts of good things,...
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Now I’m really worried!!! Within our institution we finally started this week programming within the .Net2 environment. Going forward right!!! Well not really. All our study materials are based on the .Net 1 environment. Lecturers themselves haven’t taken...
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Here's a good article written by Jakob Heidelberg, on remotely triggering Group Policy refreshes, which covers my rgprefresh tool, as well as SpecOps' cool GPUpdate utility and a few other methods. Check it out....
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The folks at Windows IT Pro Magazine are once again sponsoring the TechXWorld roadshow for Windows & Linux interoperability. This time, I'll be presenting on the Systems Management track, which includes three main areas: heteregeneous systems monitoring...
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The search for Jim Gray, and his boat, is still underway. No luck yet, but there is an amazing array of smart folks from all over helping with the search. To get a fascinating glimpse into the efforts being made, check out this blog . I really hope they...
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I just read this terrible news on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle today, about the search for Jim Gray off the coast of Northern California. For those of you that don't know who Jim is, he has been one of the luminaries in the computer science...
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In a previous post , I talked about the changes that MS made to Office 2007 for deployment via Group Policy. Since I wrote that post, they have pulled the article I referenced so that it is now only available via the cached Google copy. I also went ahead...
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Hey folks--if you have an interest in AD, MIIS, or all things Microsoft identity related, you should really check out the upcoming Directory Experts Conference , put on by NetPro annually. It is a truly special event, gathering some of the topic AD experts...
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So I was doing some tests at one of my favorite customers in the world ;) they allowed me to share the information of a test on replication of a domain controller on a different site on a single forest single domain infrastructure. The key here is that...
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In an earlier post I talked about some issues with UAC interfering with GP logon scripts in Vista, and I referenced an MS-TechNet article that describes how you can work around it by using a special script called "launchapp.wsf" that adds the...
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Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all didn't feel as bad as I did this morning after staying up way too late and partying just a little too much. But on the up side, I was greeted to a nice email in my inbox this morning informing me that I was...
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This is really cool. My friend Sean Deuby at Intel sent me this one. http://www.multiplyyourself.com/...
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For those of you really on the bleeding edge, you may have already discovered some changes in the way customize and deploy Office 2007 via the GP Software Installation feature. This article details the steps you need to take, but I thought it would be...
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As I've mentioned in previous posts, I've started a software company called SDM Software . Well, I've just shipped my first little product! Boy it feels good! The product, called GPHealth Reporter essentially reports on the details related...
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Microsoft has released a command-line tool called GPLogview.exe ( http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=75004 ) that lets you create reports of the Group Policy Operational log that now ships with Vista. For more info on this log, check out an earlier...
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After bringing up the logon script issues on Vista that I previously blogged on with the Microsoft Group Policy Folks, they pointed me to the following document: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/5ae8da2a-878e-48db-a3c1-4be6ac7cf7631033.mspx...
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I've started to hear murmurs on my GPTalk mailing list about people having problems running GPO-based logon scripts against Vista systems. In one circumstance, Jeremy Moskowitz was having problems running a batch file that mapped network drives. It...
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Lately I seem to be blogging about things other than Group Policy. I promise I'll get back to that soon. But, this past weekend I had to deal with something that was extremely hard. I had to put down our cat--Sid. Sid was an amazing animal in every...
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