Recent Posts
TechEd 2010 New Zealand Session Video’s Online NOW!
Some of video’s of my TechEd 2010 session are now appearing online. If you were not able to make mine of Jeremy Moskowitz session in Australia or New Zealand or you just want to want to watch it again then you can now checkout the whole session online right now…. AWESOME!! The official line from Microsoft NZ about TechEd Online…
Group Policy Search
Here is another video from Lilia Gutnik (Program Manager with the Group Policy Team) on TechNet Edge about the search features in the Group Policy Management Console. If you have every lost a Group Policy Object or just made an edit and was not sure which GPO you were in then this video will show you how to use the…
Troubleshooting Group Policy Using GPLogView
Lilia Gutnik from the Group Policy Team at Microsoft (a.k.a. @superlilia ) recently recorded some video’s with Adam Bomb from TechNet Edge. This video shows a cool new Group Policy troubleshooting tool called GPLogview which is a very useful to decipher those very long and complicated group policy event log’s that Windows give you out of the box. HTML5 video…
Hotfix: Wrong Date for Schedule Task in Windows Vista/2008
Microsoft have now released hotfix (KB980356) to resolve an issues with configuring a scheduled task described as “Incorrect start dates are displayed for the scheduled tasks that are deployed by Group Policy preferences in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Vistaâ€. This issues results a problem with the schedule task being configured to run on the wrong date (e.g. a…
Watch my TechEd 2010 Australian Group Policy Preferences Session LIVE!
I just discovered that mine and Jeremy’s session will be broadcasted live as a free silverlight streamed session. You can register for the live session at TechEd Live. So even if you are not in the country please logon to see how awesome Group Policy Preferences can be in your organisation. You can also see what other session at TechEd…
TechEd 2010–Australia / New Zealand
Group Policy Setting on the week will be taking a break for the next 2 weeks as I will be speaking at TechEd Australia and New Zealand. If you are lucky enough to be coming to either event then please come to my one or both of Group Policy sessions. Australia Session When CLI303 – Unlock the Awesome Power…
How to configure Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection
Read Me First: If you are using Folder Redirection with Windows 7 in your organisation then I would definitely recommend that you check my other blog post about a pretty nasty Folder redirection bug and how to fix it at Disappearing Folder Redirection Issues with Windows 7 Update: I have new blog post that describes the new “Primary Computer” feature in…
Group Policy Setting of the Week 39 – Always use custom logon background
This week setting of the week allows you to prefer a custom logon background image in Windows 7. This setting is called “Always use custom logon background†and can be found under Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > Logon. Microsoft brought back the option to easily customise the logon background in Windows 7 as this was…
