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Multicasting in Server 2008

Kevin is right, this has already been talked about , but he does a nice job of explaining the two types of multicasting. Two drawbacks to this however...First you cannot multicast across subnets, well you can but if your network supports this you are wide open to a SQL Slammer type of attack where one...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 09-03-2007
Filed under: Active Directory, Group Policy, Packaging, Patching, Beta, Longhorn, News, Microsoft, SCCM 2007, OSD, SMSNomad Branch, OSD Plus Pack, ConfigMgr, Server 2008
Microsoft Announces Desktop Optimization Pack

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...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-17-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, Group Policy, Tools, Vista, News, Microsoft
SoftGrid + Folder Redirection + Group Policy = No More Down Time? No More App Installs?

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...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-17-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, Group Policy, Microsoft
Microsoft Improves Group Policy Management Console

It was announced today the MSFT purchased DesktopStandard , the makers of GPO Vault and PolicyMaker. If you work with GP’s you know how frustrating it can be to get to a certain point with normal policies and want to extend it, but unless you have the time and resources to program them you are...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-03-2006
Filed under: Group Policy, Microsoft
MMS 2006 - Day 2 - Group Policy What's New in Vista and Longhorn

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...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 04-25-2006
Filed under: Group Policy, Security, Vista, Microsoft, MMS 2006
Day 1 - MMS 2006 - Part 2

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...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 04-25-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, Scripting, Group Policy, Vista, Longhorn, News, Microsoft, MMS 2006
Controlling Windows XP Performance Settings/Visual Effects through Group Policy

Another thing I’ve been working on lately is creating a group policy that controls the performance settings and visual effects of Windows XP. I have most of the registry settings identified that I needed to tweak and I’m controlling the settings through Group Policy using Policymaker. ...

Posted to Chris Nackers Blog (Weblog) by cnackers on 02-20-2009
Filed under: General, Microsoft, Windows XP, Group Policy
Controlling Windows XP Performance Settings/Visual Effects through Group Policy

Another thing I’ve been working on lately is creating a group policy that controls the performance settings and visual effects of Windows XP. I have most of the registry settings identified that I needed to tweak and I’m controlling the settings through Group Policy using Policymaker. ...

Posted to Chris Nackers Blog (Weblog) by cnackers on 02-20-2009
Filed under: General, Microsoft, Windows XP, Group Policy
Multicasting in Server 2008

Kevin is right, this has already been talked about , but he does a nice job of explaining the two types of multicasting. Two drawbacks to this however...First you cannot multicast across subnets, well you can but if your network supports this you are wide open to a SQL Slammer type of attack where one...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 09-03-2007
Filed under: Active Directory, Group Policy, Packaging, Patching, Beta, Longhorn, News, Microsoft, SCCM 2007, OSD, SMSNomad Branch, OSD Plus Pack, ConfigMgr, Server 2008
Microsoft Announces Desktop Optimization Pack

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...

Posted to The Daily Ramblings of an SMS Engineer (Weblog) by aclendenen on 10-17-2006
Filed under: SMS 2003, Group Policy, Tools, Vista, News, Microsoft

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