The Windows Server 2003 and Server 2008 Shutdown Event Tracker is a little like the UAC prompts. It gets on my nerves with a prompt whenever I have to reboot a server. What comment do you usually enter in the Shutdown Event Tracker? My favorite comment is “a” because it is the first character in [...]
Submitted by Darren Mar-Elia – Blog: The GPOGuy Group Policy Blog SDM Group Policy Refresh Cmdlet is the PowerShell version of my Group Policy remote refresh utility. The PowerShell version has many of its options, but leverages PowerShell to trigger remote Group Policy refreshes on systems on your network. It allows you to send options [...]
Mary Joe Foley and Ed Bott blogged about Midori, which is supposed to be the code name of a new operating system, Microsoft is working on. As I understand their articles, we are not talking about Windows 8 or 9 here, but about something completely new, i.e., an OS built from scratch. Even though both [...]
You probably know that you can record changes made to Active Directory and Group Policy objects by enabling auditing. But extracting the information that interests you can be quite cumbersome. You can use a more sophisticated event log management tool such as EventSentry or GFiEventsManager. However, if you just want to stay informed about which [...]
Two weeks ago I reviewed Symantec’s application virtualization solution Altiris Software Virtualization Solution (SVS). In that review I described how virtualized apps can be created, I explained the layer concept, and I outlined how layers can be activated locally or remotely via the command line. Symantec offers a more professional way to deploy such virtualized [...]
By Michael Pietroforte - g+ - Tue, July 15, 2008 - 2 comments