Microsoft has just released a report (see AppLocker Deployment at Microsoft)  describing the process they used to implementation of AppLocker via Group Policy. This was done to so that Microsoft would maintaining compliance with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by preventing all their computers from running P2P software. The report shows that after they fully rolled out the…

Today I experienced Serendipity with the error “Unable to find a default server with Active Directory Web Services running.” in PowerShell with Windows 7. This message was occurring when trying to create some new OU’s using the New-ADOrganizationalUnit command. Initially I thought it was due to not having the required Active Directory Powershell commands installed but then I realised that…

If you have ever read my Best Practice for Group Policy blog post then you will know that I encourage you to edit the default domain GPO’s sparingly. The only exception I would make to this rule is when you want to modify the default domain password policy but even then you can create a new password policy GPO linked…

I just came across a video on TechNet Edge about Security Compliance Manager v2 with Jose & Jeff who work on this product. This video talks about the evolution of the product and has some great demo’s of the product. Video Source at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/Video/hh559198 If you would like to know more then check out one of my many SCM blog…

Remote Desktop Virtualisation is a feature of Windows that allows your users to run windows running remotely from server hardware. This is almost an identical concept with how Terminal Services (a.k.a. Remote Desktop Services, a.k.a. Remote Desktop Session Host) works where the users is sending keyboard and mouse messaged to the server and then receives the screen updates back. It…

In case you did not already know I am organising a user Group event called Infrastructure Saturday. This event is a full day users group meeting jammed pack full of 18 session of content. Thanks to our sponsors this is a fully catered event (including Coffee!!!) and we will have HEAPS or prizes to win. The event will be held…

So I am stuck in hospital for the new few days (I’m fine) but luckily I have my laptop with so I am going to watch more of the BUILD sessions videos to see what titbits I can find out about Windows 8. If you have not already read my other post about what it new in Windows 8 then…

There is a company call Near Map that takes frequent high detail areal images of my suburb. There also happen to have a twitter account ( @nearmap ) that announces when they are about to take a photos of certain regions. SO…. last time they took a photo of my area I raced out to the front yard to make…