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A Bluescreen By Any Other Color
Note: for an easier way to customize the blue screen’s colors, see my next blog post, “ Blue Screens in Designer Colors with One Click ”. Seeing a bluescreen that’s not blue is disconcerting, even for me, and based on the reaction of the TechEd audiences...(read more)
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The Case of the Slow Project File Opens
If you’ve seen one of my Case of the Unexplained presentations (like the one I delivered at TechEd Europe last month that’s posted for on-demand viewing ), you know that I emphasize how thread stacks are a powerful troubleshooting tool for diagnosing...(read more)
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AGPM Least Privilege for Child Domain
Michael has covered “least privilege” for AGPM before (the Active Directory team followed up with a bit more detail). However, those scenarios are for single-domains. What if you have a forest where you want to manage all the child domains using AGPM, but you don’t want to just give the AGPM service administrator privileges across your entire forest? This guide will show you how to let the AGPM functionality take root with the minimum amount of privilege for each child in your domain.
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LiveKd for Virtual Machine Debugging
When Dave Solomon and I were writing the 3 rd edition of the Windows Internals book series Inside Windows 2000 back in 1999, we pondered if there was a way to enable kernel debuggers like Windbg and Kd (part of the free Debugging Tools for Windows package...(read more)
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Tales from the Community - Deleting a registry value
Tales from the Community – Deleting registry values
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More on searching group policy
Here’s a quick follow-up to our last post on the existence of GPO search. One of our MVPs, Alan, has a great post up about a Group Policy Search webapp (Previously mentioned on this blog). It includes instructions on how to install a Windows Search connector – so you can use this search right from Windows Explorer!
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Group Policy Videos
We've got two new videos for you!
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More powershell & group policy
I do not know about you but I LOVE PowerShell, especially the Group Policy cmdlets. Unfortunately, I didn’t have too many opportunities to really use them - but luckily got a chance in preparation for a presentation where I would demo a script that Lindsay (from our dev team) put together.
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Group Policy & Scripting
Hey, Scripting Guy! has a great series of posts around Group Policy & scripting:
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Cross post: AskDS Group Policy Search Settings in the cloud
Kapil posted a great article about a new tool created by Stephanus Schulte and Jean-Pierre Regente. It's an Azure-hosted tool that keyword searches Group Policy settings. Read about it here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2010/06/24/announcing-the-group-policy-search-service.aspx
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How long does this script / WMI Filter take?
I was reading GP MVP Darren Mar-Elia’s forum about WMI Filters and discovered a sweet PowerShell trick from another awesome friend of the GP team, Thorbjörn Sjövold (CTO of Specops Software)
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Re-post: Darren Mar-Elia's "Controlling Shares on Windows Systems"
Darren Mar-Elia, aka GPOGuy, wrote a cool post about using Group Policy Preferences to remove unwanted network shares from your environment. Group Policy Preferences can do everything! If you've got Windows Server 2008 or above, you've already got GP Preferences at your disposal.
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Importing and Exporting with AGPM
Thanks for tuning in this lovely Friday! Time for a glimpse into the advanced side of Group Policy, with Advanced Group Policy Management. This awesome product comes as part of MDOP (Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack), which you can get easily if you have SA. Read more about it here on TechNet. The following article on how to migrate between Controlled and Uncontrolled GPO’s is by Deepak Vishwanathan, a hardworking developer on the Group Policy team.