November 2006 - Posts
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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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
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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
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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
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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
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