by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 23, 2010 | General Stuff, Group Policy Preferences, Security-related
Microsoft recently announced a new security vulnerability in Windows shortcuts that affects all versions of Windows since XP! Its references here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2286198. This particular vulnerability takes advantage of the icon that appears in...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 22, 2010 | General Stuff, Microsoft-Related, Security Policy, Security-related
Some of you may have seen a twitter post I did a while back letting folks know about the Security Compliance Manager, which is a tool from Microsoft that lets you manage, edit, report, search and export security templates and baselines. This tool is pretty cool, but...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 5, 2010 | General Stuff
I had a question recently that I thought was worth blogging. The question was, “if I create a GPO using Windows 7, Server 2008 or similar newer platform”, then backup that GPO using XP or Server 2003, will it back up everything?”. The answer, not...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 31, 2010 | General Stuff
Just a quick note to remind folks that for the 5th year in a row my good friend Mark Minasi is hosting the Minasi Conference in Virginia this Spring. For those of you who are used to going to one of those big conferences, this is a much more “intimate”...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 2, 2010 | General Stuff
Despite once again having to fetch it from my spam folder, I did indeed get the coveted email from Microsoft yesterday indicating that I’d been made a Group Policy MVP for the 5th year in a row. Cool! I am honored and happy to be an MVP for another year. I look...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 23, 2009 | General Stuff
As many folks probably know, Group Policy slow link detection prior to Windows Vista relied on a series of ICMP pings to determine link speed between the client and domain controller. This process was fairly inprecise and was fraught with issues because many folks...
