A video from fellow Group Policy MVP has just Darren Mar-Elia (a.k.a. GroupPolicyGuy) has just bee posted on the Windows IT Pro web site. If your an IT Pro and you think your job might be a on the line with the launch of all these new clouds service (like Office 365) then this is definitely a good watch… At…

A new version of the super awesome Security Compliance Manager v2 has now been released to the public on the connect web site. If you may remember Microsoft released the CTP version of this product back in march which had some of the new features: Ability to Import GPO’s into Custom Baseline Templates Ability to install without having to install…

Windows Server Update Service (a.k.a. WSUS) is Microsoft free tool they provide for deploying patches and updates. In my experience this tool is pretty much used by every organisation in the world that has more than a hand full of computers. WSUS is also a requirement for the Software Update option in SCCM 2007. What I hope this post will…

There has been a lot of talk in the news recently around how Mozilla have changed support gears are are now releasing a new browser version every few month. The affect of this is that a lot of enterprise customers (such as IBM) using Firefox aren’t even finished testing before the next version is released. While corporate customers using Firefox…

Microsoft have just released another two a few more Group Policy related hotfixes’. Below is the description of each issue that it resolves and link to the related KB Article. GetGPOList function does not return all GPOs in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 Consider the following scenario: You have a computer that is running Windows 7 or…

Microsoft has just released a new hotfix to address an issue with slow logon performance when you use AppData folder redirection. Consider the following scenario in a network environment: You configure users to use roaming profiles to log on to a client computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. You redirect the %AppData%\Roaming folder to a…

In case you missed it Steven Sinofsky has just shown a preview of Windows 8 UI at the All Things D conference. I have posted a few screenshots and the official Microsoft video below to wet your appetite… Sorry I have no news on what new with Group Policy, yet… Lock Screen Start Screen Check out the full video below:

The Internet Explorer Administration Kit for IE9 has just been released to the public. One of the cool things that this tool can do is make a silent MSI for installing IE9 which is very handy if you are going to deploy it via Group Policy. For Instructions for deploying software via Group Policy see Best Practice: How to deploy…