Disponible depuis la fin du mois d’octobre, la série d’outils de gestion de la conformité de la sécurité (Security Compliance Management Toolkit Series) est disponible en téléchargement et comprend des guides pratiques, des modèles de sécurité ainsi que des outils de configuration et de vérification de la conformité pour les produits suivants : Windows 7 Internet Explorer 8 Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2003 Windows Vista Windows XP Microsoft Office 2007 Toolkit Components : Each

I wanted to share the download link for group policy settings reference for Windows and Windows Server. These spreadsheets list the configuration settings for users and computers that can be set within Group Policy. Click here to be taken to the download site. Enjoy!

Hi Everyone, We want to let you know that there is a correction to the link to download “Group Policy Settings added to Windows 2008”. So if you are looking for it the link is here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=18c90c80-8b0a-4906-a4f5-ff24cc2030fb Apologies if you have had trouble finding it

I notice online that there's a broken link to the Group Policy Settings Spreadsheet changes. What happened was that the content for this area got consolidated and unfortunately in the process the old links were broken. So if you are looking for settings changes in Group Policy for: Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Vista SP1 and SP2 Windows Server 2008 Windows XP SP1, SP2 and SP3 Windows Server 2003 Any associated Service Packs then the new link is here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=18c90c80-8b0a-4906-a4f5-ff24cc2030f

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 links. However, the means by which Group Policy determines this are different between operating systems prior to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. Before Windows Server 2008 and Vista Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 Group Policy

Hi , I had an interesting issue with a customer recently. After a recent promotion of a couple of Domain Controllers , it came to light some time later that users were able to set their passwords to 0 e.g. minimum password length = 0. On investigation what was discovered was the following. When the Domain controller was promoted a secedit script was run. This had been part of a server build process for sometime. It was normally run on completion of the normal member server build was run. What was

well this is a rather neat addition to our methods of learning. If you really want to just dip your toe into a subject and have a “snack” then please see the following range of  “Learning Snacks” For other Windows Server 2008 Learning Snacks, please visit: Windows Server 2008   Introducing Branch Office Server in Windows Server 2008 (4 minutes) This Snack describes the benefits that Windows Server 2008 provides for installing and maintaining a branch office network. It demonstrates the

A couple weeks back, we had a great Windows Firestarter event up on the Redmond Campus. We had some fantastic speakers on hand to talk about new features and technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. I know there are lots of people who live out side of the Redmond, WA area that would have loved to have attended in person but weren’t able to so we made sure to record the sessions as they were happening. Below you will find links to those sessions which you can view on demand at your leisure.

The Security tab of the Internet Explorer Properties dialog shows security settings for the Internet, Intranet, Trusted Sites and Restricted Sites zones. However: It doesn’t show settings for the Local Machine (Computer) zone, nor for Local Machine Zone Lockdown (LMZL). When machine settings or other policies are in effect, most of the Security Zones UI is disabled. The attached utility “IE Zone Comparer” was designed to overcome these limitations and provide additional visibility into security zone

Since Mark Russinovich hasn’t trademarked his “Case of the Unexplained…” series, I’m appropriating the title to describe the results of some troubleshooting I did for a customer. The root cause turned out to be a widely-adopted but ill-advised registry hack that many organizations have built into their standard desktop images. If you’re not interested in the troubleshooting steps, skip ahead past the nerd content here and just read the Analysis. [Spoiler: it’s about the Autorun.inf “SYS:DoesNotExist”