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Saturday, November 07, 2009 3:26 AM

Viewing and Comparing IE Security Zone Settings - enhanced

A utility to compare IE security zone settings and to see the effective settings for an IE security zone.
Posted by Aaron Margosis | 0 Comments
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Attachment(s): IEZoneAnalyzer.zip
Thursday, October 01, 2009 6:27 PM

Viewing and Comparing IE Security Zone Settings

A utility for viewing and comparing IE security zones, particularly on systems locked down with Group Policy
Posted by Aaron Margosis | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): IEZoneAnalyzer.zip
Monday, September 28, 2009 2:43 AM

The Case of the Unexplained Installation Failure (and an ill-advised registry hack)

Problems arising from a widely-adopted (but ill-advised) registry hack that is intended to block Autoplay.
Posted by Aaron Margosis | 0 Comments
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:35 PM

Source code for New and Updated Local Group Policy utilities

Source and project files for the new ImportRegPol utility and the updated Set_FDCC_LGPO and Apply_LGPO_Delta utilities for managing Local Group Policy Objects.
Posted by Aaron Margosis | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): LGPO-Utilities-sources.zip
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:30 PM

New and Updated Local Group Policy Utilities

A new Local Group Policy utility, ImportRegPol, that parses and/or imports registry.pol files; and updates to Set_FDCC_LGPO and Apply_LGPO_Delta.
Posted by Aaron Margosis | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): LGPO-Utilities.zip
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:51 AM

FDCC Vista Application Development Requirements

Overview NOTE: This entry only focuses on the Windows Vista version of the FDCC and desktop applications. Since its infancy, common themes have emerged which have delayed or prevented enterprise customers from deploying the FDCC. By the 80/20 rule, the
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:27 AM

FDCC and Internet Explorer 7, Part 3 – Protected Mode

Locked-down IE7, issues (and a bug) with Protected Mode.
Posted by Aaron Margosis | 0 Comments
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:29 PM

Set_FDCC_LGPO.exe v1.06, Visual C++ project sources

Project/source code for Set_FDCC_LGPO v1.06
Posted by Aaron Margosis | 1 Comments
Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:08 PM

Set_FDCC_LGPO updated: v1.06

Set_FDCC_LGPO v1.06 posted to reflect NIST's updates to their FDCC GPO downloads. (Need more acronyms.)
Posted by Aaron Margosis | 1 Comments
Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:27 AM

Apply_LGPO_Delta v1.01, source code

Visual Studio 2005 project and source code files for Apply_LGPO_Delta v1.01 is attached to this blog post. [Attachment removed, as a newer version is available -- bookmark the landing page for the most up-to-date-links.]
Posted by Aaron Margosis | 1 Comments
Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:13 AM

Apply_LGPO_Delta updated, v1.01

Apply_LGPO_Delta, a utility for automating the management of local group policy, is updated with a minor fix to prevent sharing-violation errors. The set of "starter" files is also updated.
Posted by Aaron Margosis | 2 Comments
Friday, January 23, 2009 10:20 PM

Set_FDCC_LGPO.exe v1.05, source code

Visual Studio 2005 project files and source code for Set_FDCC_LGPO.exe v1.05 is attached to this blog post. (This blog doesn't support multiple file attachments per post...) [Attachment removed, as a newer version is available -- bookmark the landing
Posted by Aaron Margosis | 4 Comments
Friday, January 23, 2009 10:07 PM

Set_FDCC_LGPO updated: v1.05

[2009-04-15: Attachment removed. Bookmark this page for the latest versions of these utilities.] The utility for applying FDCC configuration settings en masse to a computer has been updated: The 0x80070020 sharing-violation error code that occasionally
Posted by Aaron Margosis | 3 Comments
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 10:46 AM

FDCC and Internet Explorer 7, Part 2 – Impact on Users

Part 2 of a series on the intersection of Internet Explorer 7 and application of security guidance (e.g., the US Federal Desktop Core Configuration). This part talks about the impact of locked-down configurations on typical non-admin end users.
Posted by Aaron Margosis | 1 Comments
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:35 PM

FDCC Blog Alert: Issue with Windows Vista SP1 and GPResults

Author: Mandy Tidwell, Senior Consultant Applies to: Windows Vista SP1 Setting: Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\User Rights Assignment\Create Symbolic Links History: After implementing FDCC on Windows Vista SP1,
Posted by Mandy Tidwell | 0 Comments
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