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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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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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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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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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