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If you’re headed to MS TechEd next week in Orlando, SDM Software will be there in spirit. We won’t have a booth there, but I’m speaking on Monday at 3pm on “Best Practices for Group Policy Design”.
In addition, I’ll be hanging out in the booth of those great guys from Sweden–SpecOps Software–makers of SpecOps Deploy, Password Policy and a few other Group Policy-enabled products.
Just a quick update to my previous blog posting to let you all know that the 2.0 version of GPUpdate has shipped from SpecOps:http://www.specopssoft.com/products/specopsgpupdate/Tags:SpecOps,…
My friends at SpecOps are getting ready to release one updated and one new product that continues to make Group Policy a more powerful solution for managing Windows desktops and servers. They are getting ready to release an update to their free GPUpdate tool, which snaps into AD Users and Computers to provide features such as remote GP refresh, Wake-on-Lan support and more. The new…
Today, my inbox was greeted with a couple of new links for those of you looking at and working with PowerShell. The first is a pretty cool e-workbook on getting started with PowerShell, written by Frank Koch of Microsoft Switzerland. Frank put together this workbook (in English and German, btw) for folks looking to get started using PowerShell and had contacted me about taking a look at SDM…
As you may have heard, Microsoft is finally providing the ability to have fine-grained password policies within a single AD domain. That means you can now have different password policies for different user groups within AD. This feature is described nicely in Jorge de Almeida’s excellent blog entry.Well, now our friends at SpecOps have come out with a free GUI tool for managing these new…
Since I’ve been blogging fairly regularly about the problems using GP to deploy Office 2007, and in fact even wrote about it in this month’s Windows IT Pro Magazine, it was no surprise that I heard recently from my good friends at Special Operations Software. They reminded me that if you really want to use Group Policy to deploy Office 2007 (or any application for that matter) in a robust way,…
