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Group Policy Blog, by the "GPOGUY"-- Darren Mar-Elia

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November 2006 - Posts

Logon script issues with Vista?
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 Read More...
"Sid the Wonder Cat"
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 Read More...
Glass is cool
Well, after only hearing about it and worshiping it from afar, I finally got Aero Glass to work on my desktop Vista system. And I have to say, the eye candy is cool. I'm sure that the novetly and excitement will wear off shortly, but for now, Glass Read More...
ADMX Migrator/editor tool is released
On the heels of Vista's RTM, Microsoft has released a free download that will be useful to many administrators. As I've blogged about previously, Vista ships with a new Administrative Template format---called ADMX. These XML-based templates are Read More...
Vegas--yuck
I spent last week in Vegas speaking at the WinConnections conference on Group Policy and ADAM-related topics. After attending umpteen million conferences in Sin City, I've finally decided that I truly hate the place. It wouldn't be so bad if everything Read More...
MS Desktop Optimization Pack to include some GP stuff
Microsoft has announced their Vista Desktop Optimization Pack--an add-on product that will include technology from recent acquisitions, Softricity, Winternals and DesktopStandard. From the descriptions, it looks like they'll be including DesktopStandard's Read More...