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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I am in the process of starting a new software company, focused on Windows management solutions, and to start with, Group Policy management solutions. Well, I finally have the new web site up and running, and you
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Also, while I'm thinking about it, if you have a chance, check out my new GP troubleshooting article in the current issue of Windows IT Pro Magazine at http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/92759/92759.html?Ad=1
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One of the other GP MVPs turned me on to this relatively new KB article and associated hotfix regardling SMB signing and GP processing. Apparently,because W2K3 DCs require SMB signing for file level access, it is possible for an administrator to create
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