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…

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…

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…

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…

If you edit Group Policy on you local computer you will be glad to hear that Microsoft has just released the Remove Server Admin Tools update for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 which has an updated version of GPMC. This resolves the "The update does not apply to your system” error message if you had re-installed Windows 7 and loaded…