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MMS 2006 - Day 2 - Group Policy What's New in Vista and Longhorn

April 25, 2006

David Power - Program manager Some pretty cool stuff, some of it is redundant. What's new? New in Vista is that GP's no longer run under Winlogon but instead run as a shared service and the service itself has been hardened by requiring local admins to have elevated privileges to stop the service, the service will also auto restart from any error. Network Awareness - policy application is not network sensitive, no longer a 90 minute wait before refresh if a DC is detected. If a system comes out of...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , ,

Day 1 - MMS 2006 - Part 2

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...  ... Read the full post or  be the first to comment. Filed under: , , , , , , ,