R2 is RTM!

tmintner — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:13:00 GMT

Windows Server 2003 R2 has been released to manufacturing today. Customers should be able to receive your physical copies next month. If you download your software from the licensing web site, you should be able to download R2 by the end of the week if not already.

Windows Server 2003 R2 is free of charge to customers who have a current Enterprise Agreement or have purchased Software Assurance.

The R2 team has started blogging! Check out their blog here: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/r2/

Append to the Local Administrators Group via GPO

tmintner — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:57:00 GMT

Previously when you used a GPO to restrict members of the Administrators group using Restricted Groups, the GPO would wipe out all entries and replace it with what you had in your GPO. This made adding an individual person to the local Administrator's group a real pain. Apparently as of Windows XP SP2, the behavior of this GPO has changed and now it appends the entries in Restricted Groups rather than replacing the entries.

There is even a hotfix available to make this work for Windows XP SP1 machines. Check out the knowledge base article here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=810076

Tim Mintner : Windows General

R2 is RTM!

Append to the Local Administrators Group via GPO