According to my web tracking on this site at least 10% of you are now running IE9 (beta) that has just been released to the web. So for all you people on the cutting edge I have just implement some of the cool new Internet Explore 9 features on my web site so that you can pin this site to…

Recently, I have been working a lot with PowerShell to automate the creation of a full AD site OU structure (with Group Policy and all) along with all the necessary delegated permissions. One of the limitation of the out of the box AD PowerShell commands is there is no easy way (but apparently there is a really hard way) to…

Microsoft has now released to the public (download it here) the newest version of Internet Explorer 9 Beta to the public. If you want to know more about the new features in IE9 then i recommend that you check out http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/ to see some of the fantastic stuff that this browser enables. If the new functionality alone is not enough…

Homegroup is a new feature in Windows 7 that allows users on a small network to easily share all their files and printers with each other with a single share password. This greatly simplifies the process to securely share  information on a home network and it can include both domain and non-domain joined computers. As an IT administrator you may…

You might think that AD time sync in your organisation is something that just works out of the box but Sander Berkouwer has just done a post about what you need to do to setup time sync for Windows Server 2008 & R2. Apparently the default time sync server for Windows Server 2003 (time.windows.com) no long works so you need…

This is a video of my Group Policy Preferences session I presented in TechEd New Zealand… I had a really good time during this session and the feedback I got from the session was really positive. In this session I introduced Group Policy Preferences and showed a number of demo’s as to how it can be used in your environment…

Source http://www.msteched.com/2010/NewZealand/CLI314

While I was at TechEd New Zealand 2010 I was asked to step into Jeremy Moskowitz shoes at the last minute as he had been quarantined in hospital with suspected swine flu. So with very little preparation I hobbled together a troubleshooting session based on his slide deck and a few of my own tips… Source http://www.msteched.com/2010/NewZealand/CLI309 Luckily for him…