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How to enable and disable UAC in Windows Vista
Unleashing the TechRONnati Spirit 2.0 | August 1st 2008 by Techronnati
If you are new to Windows Vista, you may occasionally find this tips useful. User Account Control (UAC) is a technology and security infrastructure introduced with Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system. For some reason i try to disabl read more
Configurando el Ancho de Banda del WSUS con BITS
Diego Cabai Blog | July 14th 2008 by Diego Cabai
Uno de los grandes temas del WSUS es el ancho de banda y el enlace disponible. Muchas veces tenemos sites remotos aplicando parches via WSUS y nos juega en contra ya que puede tomar gran parte del enlace para dicha tarea. Para este tema podemos imple read more
FREE: Group Policy Refresh PowerShell Cmdlet
4sysops - For Windows Administrators | July 14th 2008 by Michael Pietroforte
Submitted by Darren Mar-Elia - Blog: The GPOGuy Group Policy Blog SDM Group Policy Refresh Cmdlet is the PowerShell version of my Group Policy remote refresh utility. The PowerShell version has many of its options, but leverages PowerShell to trigge read more
Filtros WMI típicos para ser usados en GPO’s
Diego Cabai Blog | July 9th 2008 by Diego Cabai
Los que trabajamos con dominios basados en Active Directory estamos trabajando continuamente con políticas (GPO). Muchas veces estas políticas no tienen una OU determinada para ser aplicadas o bien tampoco podemos asignarlas utilizando autenticaci read more
Chapter 6 on Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Now Available
Realtime Windows Server Community | July 2nd 2008 by Realtime Publishers
This week Chapter 6 of my book The Definitive Guide to Building a Windows Server 2008 Infrastructure was released. You can get it as a free download from here: http://www.tricerat.com/ebooks/index.php. This chapter is all about Group Policy, and goes read more
Free Tool to Report Group Policy Changes
Realtime Windows Server Community | July 2nd 2008 by Realtime Publishers
Don't you wish you'd known when someone made that change to Group Policy that broke the network? Don't you wish that you'd had some idea to help you track down the problem just that much faster? Group Policy is a great tool, and one can argue one of read more
How to change the default Save As or Open location - GPEdit
STFU && RTFM | June 25th 2008 by Aleksander R. Rødner
I've been annoyed that I've not been able to change the default Save As/Open locations, as well as changing the 5 options I get on the Places Bar. Here's what it looks like default: Now, there are two ways of changing this, this first one uses the read more
Enable Task Manager
Tips, Tricks & Practice | June 9th 2008 by nik khairul
When you try to open Task Manager, the following error may occur: “Task Manager has been disabled by your administrator” -It’s highly likely that your system have been infected with a virus that enable the DisableTaskMgr policy via read more
Радости по поводу Firefox 3
AboutDigital | June 6th 2008 by Alexei V. Lazhanev
Многие уже отметили выход Firefox 3.0 RC2, а тут еше и Mozilla Corp. решила прописать себя в книге рекордов, но радости преждевременны. Браузер действ read more
Configurando los Clientes de WSUS por GPO
Diego Cabai Blog | June 4th 2008 by Diego Cabai
En artículos anteriores hemos cubierto la instalación de un Servidor de WSUS como también tomar Backup del mismo. Asimismo cubrimos la parte de Restore y el pasaje de la data a un nuevo hardware. Ahora todavía no hemos configurado via GPO los cli read more
Group Policy Diagnostic Best Practice Analyzer
Diego Cabai Blog | June 2nd 2008 by Diego Cabai
Microsoft liberó la herramienta Group Policy Object BPA. Conocíamos con anterioridad otros BPA como el de Exchange y el del ISA. Básicamente comparan tus configuraciones con las mejores prácticas (Best Practices) realizadas por Mi read more
Group Policy Issues, idiosyncrasies, and Intelligent Software tha…
Realtime Windows Server Community | May 27th 2008 by Realtime Publishers
At TechMentor last week, I got the chance to sit down with Darren Mar-Elia, President and CEO of SDM Software to talk about some of the problems associated with Windows Group Policy. A fantastic and no-added-cost feature you get with Active Directory read more
Configurar el Ahorro de Energía por Política (GPO)
Diego Cabai Blog | April 21st 2008 by Diego Cabai
Me pareció interesante escribir sobre cómo configurar las opciones de Ahorro de Energía o Power Saving via política de dominio o bien via Script para poder hacerlo de manera centralizada y automática. Recordemos que estas read more
Group Policy Best Practice Analyzer
Savage Nomads | April 11th 2008 by Jason Benway
These Best Practice Analyzers are some great tools from Microsoft. I’ve used the Exchange one before and its found issues we didn’t even know about. Now they have one from group policies. I know what I’m going to do next week! Hi, read more
What Exactly do Group Policy Preferences Do?
Realtime Windows Server Community | March 13th 2008 by Realtime Publishers
Have you read my recent Redmond Magazine column discussing the new Group Policy Preferences feature to be found with (but not requiring) the release of Server 2008, but are still confused about what it does? If so, Microsoft puts together a list tha read more
Very useful security guide: How to harden Windows Server 2008
4sysops - For Windows Administrators | February 29th 2008 by Michael Pietroforte
Microsoft published a new guide about the security settings in Windows Server 2008. This Technet article gives an overview and the guide itself can be downloaded here. What makes this guide so useful is not only the 214 page security guide (plus a 76 read more
CSE's Required for GPP's
Realtime Windows Server Community | February 28th 2008 by Realtime Publishers
If you checked out my post yesterday where I talked about the new Group Policy Preferences you might have wondered, "There's got to be some client components necessary to enable this, right?" Well, you're right. Those client components are now avai read more
Preferences are All the Rage!
Realtime Windows Server Community | February 27th 2008 by Realtime Publishers
The March issue of Redmond is out, and in this issue my Windows Insider column talks about Group Policy Preferences. This long-desired capability brings easy configuration control to clients and servers alike. In short, GPP's give you the flexibili read more
Only 24 New Group Policies in Server 2008 that Only Work in Serve…
Realtime Windows Server Community | February 24th 2008 by Realtime Publishers
Jeremy Moskowitz wrote in his blog a while ago that Microsoft had finally updated their spreadsheet that lists each and every Group Policy setting. So, I decided today to take a look at that very spreadsheet. What I found was interesting. Though t read more
The Group Policy Resource Kit, by Derek Melber
Realtime Windows Server Community | February 21st 2008 by Realtime Publishers
I just received this letter from friend and fellow author Derek Melber and thought I'd pass it on to you. Derek's been putting a massive amount of time into this project and I'm glad to hear that he's finally at the other end of it. Derek writes: read more
Techdays 2008 (Paris) - Windows Server 2008 - ressources utiles
Stanislas Quastana WebLog on Technet | February 15th 2008
Les nouveautés de Windows Server 2008 Découvrez l’ensemble des nouveautés apportées par Windows Server 2008, prochaine version du système d’exploitation serveur de Microsoft. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID read more
Remotely Refresh Group Policy Using PowerShell
Realtime Windows Server Community | February 1st 2008 by Realtime Publishers
My buddy Darren Mar-Elia, the GPO Guy, authors a new PowerShell cmdlet. He's been penning these occasional administrator-friendly PS cmdlets for a while now over at his blog at www.sdmsoftware.com. This time, I'm particularly impressed with the res read more
GPMC PowerShell Cmdlets
4sysops - For Windows Administrators | January 9th 2008 by Michael Pietroforte
Submitted by Darren Mar-Elia - Blog: The GPOGuy Group Policy Blog The GPMC PowerShell cmdlets are a set of free cmdlets that wrap the functionality of Microsoft’s Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). The cmdlets provides functionality to Po read more
Specops Command - PowerShell meets Group Policy
4sysops - For Windows Administrators | January 4th 2008 by Michael Pietroforte
Group Policy and PowerShell are both very powerful tools to automate IT management tasks. Specops Command combines both technologies giving you an even more powerful scripting solution. There is a free and a commercial version. Please, check out thi read more
Windows: Using the Registry To Block Internet Explorer
Hackosis | January 3rd 2008 by Hackosis
I wrote earlier today about how to circumvent the blocking of Internet Explorer by using Microsoft HTML Help. Lets turn in the opposite direction and look at ways we can block Internet Explorer. Not only does this work in Internet Explorer, it works read more
DIY: Terminal Services Information Kiosk
Hackosis | December 18th 2007 by Hackosis
Why spend thousands of dollars on digital signage solutions when you can implement a terminal services solution and save big time? We can use a combination of a TV, HP thin client, PowerPoint Viewer, Terminal Services, and group policy to make our in read more
FullArmor ADMX Migrator 1.2: Migrate and edit Group Policy templa…
4sysops - For Windows Administrators | November 28th 2007 by Michael Pietroforte
I have been reviewing ADMX Migrator some time ago. This free Microsoft tool isn’t just useful to migrate your ADM files to ADMX templates. In my view, its biggest value is that you can create and edit Group Policy templates with a GUI tool with read more
New Administrative templates (.admx) for Windows Vista
4sysops - For Windows Administrators | September 26th 2007 by Michael Pietroforte
Microsoft offers new Group Policy templates for Vista. You probably know that in Vista the Administrative template files (ADM) were replaced by the XML-based ADMX format. Please, check out this article for more information about ADM and ADMX. I compa read more
Group Policy Inventory
Realtime Vista Community | August 14th 2007 by Realtime Publishers
GPInventory.exe collects Group Policy (and other information) computers in your network by running multiple Resultant Set of User Policy (RSOP) and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) queries. You can export results to either an XML or a text fi read more
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