06.29.07
Posted in Security Policy at 8:32 pm by Administrator
This topic came up on a newsgroup the other day, prompting me to look around a bit. Basically, MS added support for the newer WPA2 encryption protocol for wireless networks in XP, SP2. This KB article describes the Wireless Client update that you can apply to your XP systems to get them to process those WPA2 policies. But here’s the catch–this update only allows these systems to process the wireless policies. It does not allow them to actually edit those policies. In fact, a search around the web reveals that the only way you can define WPA2 encryption in your wireless GPOs is to use Vista or Longhorn as your GP editing client! That’s right, there is no support in GP Editor on XP, SP2 or even Server 2003, SP2 to get at those new WPA2 options. XP, I’m not surprised about. MS doesn’t even expose the wireless policy node in XP without some major tweaking. I’m not sure why they didn’t provide this in 2003, SP2 however, since it was released pretty recently. In any case, if you want to use WPA2 and want to control it via policy, you will have to use Vista (or Longhorn) to define those policies.
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06.12.07
Posted in General Stuff at 6:53 am by Administrator
Well, I’m back from TechEd and settling back into the work groove. If you weren’t there, well I’m here to tell you that TechEd is one BIG show. I heard numbers of people ranging from 12,000 to 13,000. The Orlando Convention Center redefines big as well. I’m told it can hold 120,000 conference goers. Although I think this year they seemed to be a little smarter about organizing things, because it seemed like I wasn’t walking so much. However, I was standing…a lot! SDM Software was exhibiting with our partner Special Operations Software, in its booth:
So I was there on the exhibit floor 4-5 hours each day showing off the new GPExpert Troubleshooting Pak for Group Policy troubleshooting, as well as giving folks sneak peaks of the upcoming GPExpert Scripting Toolkit. The Scripting Toolkit is something I’ve wanted to do for as long as I’ve been playing with GP, and that’s a long time. What it is a scripting (PowerShell or VBScript) interface into Group Policy settings. Using the Scripting Toolkit, you’ll be able to finally automate the creation and modification of GP settings within GPOs! Keep an eye out on the website for the Toolkit, or if you’re interested in beta testing it, send an email to gpexpert (at) sdmsoftware dot com.
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