by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 17, 2008 | Cool New Products
The guys over at BeyondTrust have come out with a cool new (and free) tool for helping folks get to "least privileged use" (i.e., users are not admins on their workstations) on Windows more quickly. This product is a nice compliment to their Privilege...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 14, 2008 | Vista-2008 stuff
With the release of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft made the previously mentioned Group Policy Preferences feature available to all XP, 2003, Vista and 2008 users. This is a great thing, as I’ve said, but there has definitely been some confusion about how to...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 27, 2008 | PowerShell
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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 26, 2008 | AD
NetPro is hosting their annual Directory Experts Conference next week in Chicago. If you haven’t been to this show, its a great place to mean all the giant brains in the Active Directory world and learn some cool things about AD and related technologies. If you...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 26, 2008 | General Stuff
One of the members on our GPTalk mailing list just informed me that the Client Side Extension (CSE) packages for the new Group Policy Preference product are now available on the Microsoft download site. These are the installs that allow Windows clients to process the...
