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• Critical Out Of Band Hotfix Released

  Typically hotfixes are released on the second Tuesday of each month as you are all well aware. Occasionally, I can personally only remember three including this one, there are out of band hotfixes released. While we don’t normally post hotfix release Read More... Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:46 PM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Security, Windows Server, Windows Client, rodney.buike

• Creating Custom Application Compatibility Shims

  In a recent article I wrote about the Standard User Analyzer, one of the tools available to mitigate app compat issues with UAC. Some applications require a little more work to get them working and for these situations you can use the Compatibility Administrator Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:00 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Client, Windows Springboard, rodney.buike

• Application Compatibility with the Standard User Analyzer

  One of the biggest blockers to deployment in application compatibility. Whether it is a new OS and existing applications or new applications on an existing OS these are they kind of things that drive you nuts. There are many tools available now to help Read More... Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 9:00 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Client, Windows Springboard, rodney.buike

• Videocast - Testing DHCP Based NAP

  The other day I posted the first half of this video with the server side setup of NAP. This video will cover the client side setup and testing on both Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3. Note: Double-click on the video to go full screen. If you want to Read More... Posted Friday, June 13, 2008 9:18 AM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Network, Security, Windows Server, Windows Client, rodney.buike

• Windows Search 4.0

  Quick post to let all you Lazy Admins out there that Windows Search 4.0 has been released. There is a long list improvements. I have been using the preview release for the past month, and I definitly have noticed performance benefits on my laptop. For Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 10:47 AM by daniel.nerenberg | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Server, Windows Client

• Windows Vista Springboard: Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator

  A few weeks ago I posted about some of the tools Microsoft provides to help establish the costs and saving that deploying Vista can bring. One of the issues that I have is how do we get the numbers to fill in those forms; well MS has you covered there Read More... Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 8:33 AM by daniel.nerenberg | 0 Comments Filed under: Business Desktop Deployment, Windows Client, Windows Springboard

• Quick Tip - Using Live Sysinternals Tools

  We have all muttered the words "Where is <fill in the blank> when you need it?" A lot of times that blank is filled with the name of a SysInternals utility like Process Explorer or TCPView. Well never utter those words again thanks to http://live.sysinternals.com Read More... Posted Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:33 PM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Server, Windows Client

• Windows Vista Springboard: Discover

  I posted a few weeks ago about some Vista Springboard. Continuing that series of posts, I wanted to talk about the first part of Springboard program which is: Discover. Now I'm sure many of you have already "Discovered" Vista, I thought I had too, but Read More... Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 8:38 AM by daniel.nerenberg | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Client, Windows Springboard

• Windows Vista Springboard

  Windows Vista Springboard is a micro site on the Microsoft Web site dedicated to helping IT Pros get Vista deployed into their environments. Now before going any further with regards to Vista Springboard, I want to say that I am a strong supporter of Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 2:13 PM by daniel.nerenberg | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Client, Windows Springboard

• Configuring the Vista NAP Client

  The other day I posted a tip on how to enable the Network Access Protection client on XP SP3 .  The client is also built into Vista (RTM and SP1) and is a little easier to configure.  Although the same command line from the XP SP3 config can Read More... Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:32 PM by rodney.buike | 0 Comments Filed under: Security, Windows Client

• Configuring the NAP Client in XP SP3

  With the recent launch of Windows Server 2008 you are no doubt spending all your free time playing around with everything new. One thing you might be playing around with is Network Access Protection. There is a great document on getting a DHCP based NAP Read More... Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 9:52 AM by rodney.buike | 2 Comments Filed under: Security, Windows Server, Windows Client

• Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 Have RTM'd

  You have probably heard this bit of news already but in case you haven't we thought we'd share it with you. Vista SP1 and Server 2008 were both released to manufacturing today and will become available in the near future. That is unless you have a TechNet Read More... Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 4:35 PM by rodney.buike | 1 Comments Filed under: Windows Server, Windows Client

• Encrypting Additional Drives with BitLocker

  As you may know, BitLocker Drive Encryption only encrypts the C:\ drive. If you have additional drives in your PC, or use an external USB hard drive with your notebook, you can't encrypt that drive with BDE. Officially that is :) While Vista SP1 will Read More... Posted Monday, September 24, 2007 8:32 AM by rodney.buike | 1 Comments Filed under: Security, Windows Client

• Encrypt Drive with BitLocker

  We've done a few post on BitLocker around some of the more advanced features and controls. The one thing we haven't touched yet is just how easy it is to encrypt your drive with BitLocker. Before we get started on the procedure a little review of the Read More... Posted Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:09 PM by rodney.buike | 1 Comments Filed under: Security, Windows Client

• Manage BitLocker Via The CLI

  We have gone over the GPO settings for BitLocker recently and now we are going to cover the actual configuration of BitLocker on the computer itself. There are two ways, the GUI way, or the CLI way. Today we will focus on the CLI method. There is one Read More... Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 5:10 PM by rodney.buike | 1 Comments Filed under: Security, Windows Client

• ICACLS.EXE : ACL command line management

  Ever wanted to backup your ACLs for every file in a folder? With Windows Vista, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 a new tool has been released called ICACLS. To backup the ACLs of every file in a directory type: icacls * /save aclfile.txt This command Read More... Posted Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:30 AM by daniel.nerenberg | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Server, Windows Client

• BitLocker GPO settings

  We posted an article earlier about configuration settings in BitLocker. We covered most of the tabs from the GPO configuration settings. If you investigated the BitLocker Administrative Template you may noticed a final configuration you can adjust. This Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 3:22 PM by daniel.nerenberg | 3 Comments Filed under: Security, Windows Client

• Windows Deployment Services

  Deploying BDD is a big project. One of the first elements, and a huge time saver, is installing WDS. This tool allows us to stream down a copy of Windows PE 2.0 to your clients so that you can launch the installation process in a 32 or 64 bit environment. Read More... Posted Monday, May 07, 2007 8:27 AM by daniel.nerenberg | 2 Comments Filed under: Business Desktop Deployment, Windows Server, Windows Client

• Add Meta Data to your Files

  Windows Vista Search is an extremely powerful way to find the files your looking for. However sometimes your looking for a file or document that may have a generic name, for instance Report*.doc. (or docx in the newer Word 2007) Vista solves these kinds Read More... Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 8:25 AM by daniel.nerenberg | 0 Comments Filed under: Windows Client

• File System Virtualization

  One of the security features within Windows Vista that is not evident is file system virtualization. This type of virtualization allows an application a silo'd virtual store where it can read and write to without compromising the system. Let's say you Read More... Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:37 AM by rodney.buike | 2 Comments Filed under: Security, Windows Client