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October 17, 2006
Today it was officially announced that Microsoft will combine the recently acquired tools from Softricity, Winternals, and Desktop Standard into a single package that you can purchase for ~$50 per client. What this package gets you is SoftGrid application virtualization, group policy management/enhancement tools from DesktopStandard, and the remote repair tools from Wintenals. For this price you could not get even the tools from DesktopStandard, the backend for the SoftGrid used to run about $15...
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Filed under: SMS 2003, Group Policy, Tools, Vista, News, Microsoft
October 17, 2006
Think back to the dumb terminal days, back when you only had to worry about your servers staying up. If an end user had a problem, they moved to a different terminal or you replaced it. Okay I wasn’t really working in IT back then but I have heard stories. Well imagine this…You give a user a computer with only an OS installed, their computer is in an OU that through group policy locks it down as kiosk, they can’t write to the system at all, they can’t open control panel,...
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Filed under: SMS 2003, Group Policy, Microsoft
April 25, 2006
This was a long day, I managed to get into four sessions and spend some time at SMS Expert booth talking with Dave. If you have not seen the new version of ESD make sure you stop by and check it out, they have done some great things with it. I was not able to make it to the get together at the Marriott, I was tired and had not eaten since lunch so I got back to my room about 9:30, ate, and went to sleep. Hopefully I will be meet up with some of the myITforum people today. My wife and daughter arrive...
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Filed under: SMS 2003, Scripting, Group Policy, Vista, Longhorn, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006