We have heard some customer issues around one of the underpinning areas of Group Policy Preferences – namely the History Folder. Issue On Windows Server 2003 Terminal Servers with a large number of users, the history folder grows so large it causes increasing...

Got this in my mail from John Hathaway, who like me, laments the inability of hardware vendors to re-release/update their driver installers to work with Windows 7. I blogged about this some time ago but John has updated it further. Here's his feedback...

The ever irrepressible Mike Stephens has done an awesome blog post on slow link detection in Windows Vista and Windows 7. This mechanism changed in these versions from using ICMP Ping to NLA. Mike speaks about it on the AskDS blog. Over to you Mike…

Wahoo! Its finally out and announced on the MDOP blog . MDOP 2009 R2 is now available at the MVLS site . This means you get two of the products my teams worked on which were Advanced Group Policy Management 4.0 and Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 6.5...

Im seeing tons of people on forums trying to find the Group Policy Changes in XP SP3 and Windows 7. It seems that both Google and Bing dont return the results if you search for “Group Policy Changes XP SP3” because of all the noise of people asking where...

We are excited to offer an exclusive opportunity for customers to participate in an upcoming Microsoft beta program. In the coming months, a new Microsoft desktop management service will be made available to a limited number of customers to obtain their...

I mentioned previously that I might be attending TechEd Europe this year to present on Windows Server 2008 R2 Group Policy changes. Well its confirmed. I am definitely coming! (Yeah!!) So I started to think about what you might like to see from my sessions...

A customer reported an issue to me recently where the customer reported that when using AGPM 3.0, each time they deployed out to production, their GPLinks were being destroyed. Why is this occurring? What’s probably relevant here is to outline what’s...