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The App-V blog folks posted information about a new training course being offered by Microsoft covering MDOP and enterprise desktop management. This is a 5-day instructor led course. I'm assuming that it is at least based upon (if not directly adapted...
Michael Kleef over at the Group Policy Team blog posted word that they are near completion on a new utility for migrating PolicyMaker Preferences into WS08 Group Policy Preferences. This will obviously benefit those that were using the product suite prior...
Any of you that actually waste time reading my blog will be painfully aware of how f-ing impressed I am with Group Policy Preferences and the fact that it's FREE. Unlike SoftGrid, which is part of MDOP, and NOT free, GPPrefs are available for download...
This recent post on the Group Policy Team Blog covers a very interesting topic of how to add some flexibility to restricted groups. Rather than repeat the gist of the post, I'll just provide a link to it. Given that I LOVE GP Prefs, I had to post this...
Boy, what a day! I was immersed head-first, neck-deep into EMC product familiarization training. Keep in mind that I've barely touched a storage device (in a real sense), since I'm more of a software kind of guy. So this was a big jump for me. Now I'm...
I know. I know. I keep ranting and blabbering on like some over caffeinated kid on a bumpy field trip bus ride, about how fantastically incredible Group Policy Preferences are. I have also said many times that I know Microsoft didn't invent or create...
(1) "Disabled" is not the same as "Not Configured" Configuring a GPO setting to "Disabled" is an explicit action. It "disables" the setting on affected clients or users. Configuring a setting to "Not configured" is implicit. It simply turns the cheek...
Yes! Yes! Yes! Thanks to Stephen Bink for this post on Bink.nu for this heads-up. As I've blogged on ad nauseum before: Group Policy Preferences are fantastic. As in: you can skip a night of beer and sex and still feel fulfilled. Yes. It's that great...
Yes, I've already blogged about Group Policy Preferences on WS08 , but I have to say it again: I LOVE GROUP POLICY PREFERENCES! Yes, I know, they're not *really* new. They are the result of yet another in a long line of business acquisitions Microsoft...
Holy crap! The title is a little misleading, to me anyway. This podcast demo on how to implement "granular password policies" with Windows Server 2008 makes it seem like a checkbox or a drop-down list setting. Au contrare, mon frier! What until you get...
If you're not aware of Group Policy Preferences , or GPP, they are the renamed result of an acquisition of the works of Desktop Standard by Microsoft back in 2007. Essentially, GPP are an extension to Group Policy Objects which allow administrators to...
I ran into an interesting "phone diagnosis" as I refer to them. You know, that's when a buddy calls you and gives you the symptoms over the phone and challenges you to diagnose the illness and prescribe a cure. Happens to me like every week. This one...