Microsoft showed in great details for two hours Windows 8 during the start of the BUILD conference today. If you would like to watch the whole 2 hour video you can check it out at right now at http://www.buildwindows.com/ .  Check out the keynote below. From what I have seen from the video, I can truly say that Windows 8…

If you are attending TechEd Australia 2011 then please come and see my two “Birds of Feather” sessions then I will be doing on Thursday and Friday. These are shortened version of my TechEd NZ session, however I will in the hanging around the room after the session so I will be happy to take any other questions that you…

I have seen this issue be raised many many many many many many times on the Group Policy forums so I thought I would quick do a blog post about this new fix from Microsoft to make the “reconnect” flag work properly for drive mappings. The hotfix KB2551503 fixes “A mapped drive that has the non-persistent flag set is displayed as a…

I am excited/honoured to be once again speaking at TechEd New Zealand and Australia this year. I will be presenting 3 breakout session for TechEd New Zealand and 2 Interactive sessions at TechEd Australia. If you are attending either of these events here are the details of my sessions as listed at: TechEd NZ Topic List TechEd AU Topic List…

One strange thing that still seems to catch a lot of people out is that you can only have one password policy for your user per domain. This catches a lot of people out as they apply a password policy to an OU in their AD thinking that it will apply to all the users in that OU…. but it…

This article is a continuation of the other blog post I have previously published at Best Practice: How to deploy software using Group Policy. I highly recommend that you take to the time to review the other blog posting before continuing on reading this post. Most particularly if you are looking at using Group Policy to deploy software please review…

If you have are one of the many people who have checked out my Best Practice: Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection (a.k.a. User State Virtualization) post you probably know that roaming profiles can be super useful feature to implement. However over the years roaming profiles have got a bit of a bad wrap as sometime things can and do go…

In this video, fellow Group Policy MVP Jermey Moskowitz recorded video interview at TechEd Atlanta. In this video he talks about what to expect with Group Policy in 2011 and he talks about his up coming release of PolicyPak v3. Jeremy also talked about PolicyPak 3.0, the new update being released to PolicyPak, and what the benefits of the software…