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Mike here again. Many Group Policy features rely on a well connected network for their success. However, not every connection is perfect or ideal; some connections are slow. The Group Policy infrastructure has always provided functionality to detect slow
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Ned here. A few big pieces of news, in case you've been having a busy week: Netmon 3.3 has been released . You can download from here . Read more about the new features (such as autoscroll, frame commenting, experts, WWAN support, and more) right here
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Hi, it's Adam Conkle again from the Directory Services team. Today's posting covers how to correctly disable Offline Files in Windows Vista. I recently had a case where the customer was experiencing undesirable behavior with a file share only when the
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Ravi here from Directory Services team; I thought I would share some information on how to enable the Event Logging for Offline Files, (Client Side Caching) in Windows Vista. Offline Files Changes in Windows Vista Offline Files has been completely redesigned
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Hi, Gary from DS here and I am going to discuss the “Configure slow-link mode” policy on Vista with Offline Files. How is slow link determined by Windows Vista? Offline Files measures the speed of a link based on the packet latency between the client
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Ned here again. I recently spent a week with Microsoft Support Engineers from all over the world, and bumped into a colleague that works in MS Spain, out of Madrid. She mentioned that they had a Spanish-language blog focused on Directory Services, networking,
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Ned here again. In the course of using Windows, it is occasionally useful to be someone besides… you. Maybe you need to be an Administrator temporarily in order to fix a problem. Or maybe you need to be a different user as only they seem to have a problem.
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Hi Rob here again. I recently had a customer that needed the functionality of MoveUser.exe from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit available in Windows Vista. The customer had quite a few Windows Vista machines that were not joined to the domain but were now
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Ned here again. A few months ago Mark Aggar, Pat Stemen, and Michael Walsh wrote an excellent TechNet Magazine article on using group policy to save power. This article gives specific examples as well as fully documents all 35 power management settings
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“I don’t want my users copying data to removable drives. How can I prevent this?” It’s a common question asked to our team. Removable drives are widespread. Current mobile devices can now store up to 8 GB of data on a micro-SD card, which is no bigger
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Mike here again. Today I’m focusing on policy settings for the Event Logging Service. For clarity, these settings control the Event Logging service; the service responsible for capturing and writing events throughout Windows. These policy settings do
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Hi, Ned here again. I am frequently asked by customers (and Microsoft employees!) where they can get to all the useful Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista audit information. Unlike some of our other components, there’s no clear portal site on
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Ned here - this is a quick post that can't wait for the Microsoft.com machine to spin up. :-) The long-awaited Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) have been released for Windows Vista. These will allow administrators to use their Vista machines
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Hi, Mike here again. This post was originally published in the Group Policy Team blog. Many of you probably know about the power management improvements included in Windows Vista and that you can manage power using Group Policy. However, did you know
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Ned here again. Today I’m going to talk about a new feature of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista called Special Groups auditing . While we’re in here, I’ll run through how we can use the new Group Policy Preferences (GPP) client-side
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