If you have have been using the some what simple hack I mentioned to make Group Policy Preference work with Internet Explorer 9 you will be relieved to know that Microsoft have now fixed an official hotfix to make this work. You can get read the full Microsoft Kb article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2530309 . However you should take special attention at…

The Windows Developer Preview version of Windows Server 8 has been on MSDN now for a while therefore I setup a Domain Controller and found some very interesting new Group Policy features lurking… Group Policy Infrastructure Status If you click on the domain name in GPMC you will notice there is a new tab called “Infra Status”. As the page…

Microsoft has made available the final version Microsoft Security Compliance Manager v2 available for download. In case you don’t already know SCM is a great security analysis tool for your Microsoft products that works great with Group Policy but also with SCCM Desired Configuration Management (DCM) and Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). If you want to learn more about SCM…

I don’t normally post funny articles on this site but this IPv6 vs. NATs video is both very funny and relevant for any IT Professional… Enjoy…  

Over the past few days in my spare time I have been watching some of the BUILD session video’s about Windows 8. Below are just some of the notes around Windows 8 that I have been able to find out what is new in Windows 8. Some of these features are consumer and/or server orientated but all of these features…

Changing file association windows by hacking the registry can be a very challenging task even if you are using Group Policy Preferences Registry option to apply the changes. However there is an option with Group Policy Preferences that allows you to change the Open With (i.e. File association) for any file type. Below I show you how you can do…

Here is a great demo heavy session from BUILD doing an introducing some of the new features of Windows Server 8.

As I mentioned in my previous post Windows 8 is having it big reveal at the BUILD conference right now. However some of the session are not developer related  and there has been some really cool information revealed about Windows Server 8 and Hyper-V (I knew I should have gone). For your convenience I have listed all the Windows Server/Hyper-V…