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

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January 2007 - Posts

Search for Jim Gray
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 Read More...
What were they thinking??--the Office product team strikes again
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 Read More...
Directory Experts Conference a-comin'
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 Read More...
Vista logon script issues revisited, again
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 Read More...
Re-Up'd for another year
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 Read More...