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This site now supports Internet Explorer 9 Pinned Sites and Jump List Task
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…
How to delegate AD permission to Organisational Units using the PowerShell command Add-QADPermission
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…
Internet Explorer 9 (Beta) Group Policy Settings
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…
Group Policy Setting of the Week 40 – Remove Homegroup link from Start Menu
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…
Fixing Active Directory Time Sync Issues
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…
TechEd 2010 NZ – Unlock the Awesome Power of Group Policy Preferences in your Environment
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…
TechEd 2010 NZ – Windows 7 – AppLocker / BitLocker
Source http://www.msteched.com/2010/NewZealand/CLI314
TechEd 2010 NZ – Troubleshooting Group Policy
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…
