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February 06, 2007
Channel Nine "In this episode, Blain Barton sits down with Kevin Sullivan, a Lead Program Manager, and Jason Leznek, Senior Product Manager for Windows Vista to discuss the Group Policy evolution in Windows Vista. Kevin and Jason will cover the details on Windows Vista and Longhorn Server Group Policy Basics, ADM vs. ADMX, ADML and discussing the central store. Plus Michael Murphy brings you another customer interview from Launch Tour 2007." Regards, Anthony Anthony Clendenen | Technical Consultant...
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Filed under: Group Policy, Vista, Longhorn, TechNet
November 21, 2006
Group Policy Settings Reference Overview This spreadsheet lists the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the administrative template files (admx/adml) delivered with Windows Vista (RTM build 6000). The policy settings included in this spreadsheet cover Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional, and Windows 2000. These files are used to expose policy settings when you edit Group Policy objects (GPOs) using Group Policy Object Editor (also known...
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Filed under: Group Policy, Vista
October 31, 2006
James Senior has a post on his blog “Views on Vista” that details how to build WMI filters for Vista and Server 2007 (Longhorn). For Vista and Server 2007 essentially you look for OS version >= 6 and for Vista a product type that = 1 and for Server 2007 a product type = 3. Check out his post below for the exact syntax. For Vista SELECT Version, ProductType FROM Win32_OperatingSystem WHERE Version >= '6' AND ProductType = '1' For Longhorn Server SELECT Version, ProductType FROM Win32_OperatingSystem...
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Filed under: Group Policy, Vista
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
September 27, 2006
Two revisions to some previous tools make the list of downloads today. The first one is the step-by-step Vista deployment guide. In this one they have added more group policy documentation, including some other new or revised docs. The second one is for testing applications in standard user mode, or non-admin. This tool will help you determine if an application is going to cause you headaches when the user is no longer running with admin rights, in Vista even the admin runs most things without admin...
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Filed under: Group Policy, Tools, Vista
September 13, 2006
Original source: Group Policy Settings Reference Windows Vista RC1 Brief Description This spreadsheet lists the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the administrative template files (admx/adml) delivered with Windows Vista RC1 (build 5600). Download details: Group Policy Settings Reference . '> Listen to this article
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Filed under: Group Policy, Vista
May 09, 2006
http://blogs.technet.com/windowsserver/archive/2006/05/09/427789.aspx Summary of New or Expanded Group Policy Settings You can now use Group Policy to centrally manage a greater number of features and component behaviors. The number of Group Policy settings has increased from approximately 1,700 in Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) to approximately 2,500 in Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn". Antivirus Manages behavior for evaluating high-risk attachments. • User Configuration...
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Filed under: Group Policy, Vista, News
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...
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Filed under: Group Policy, Security, Vista, Microsoft, MMS 2006
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