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Designing OU Structures that Work

How much planning do you put into your Organizational Unit, or OU, structure ? If you're like many administrators, probably not enough. Too many administrators underestimate the importance and complexity of a well-designed OU structure. It is something Read More...
Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 8:45 AM by matt_graven | 1 Comments

Policy-Driven Network Access with Windows Server 2008

Special Coverage: Windows Server 2008 Windows administrators are smack-dab in the middle of a challenging security balancing act: how to enable easy access to resources while still meeting ever-increasing information and network security requirements. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:00 AM by sharont | 1 Comments

Utility Spotlight: ADMX Migrator

If you use Group Policy, you’re probably familiar with the administrative templates used to configure operating system and application settings. But those familiar ADM files have changed in Windows Vista. Now they are ADMX files, and they XML-based. Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:00 AM by sharont | 1 Comments

Optimizing Group Policy Performance

Which is better: Fewer, bigger GPOs or a lot of smaller ones?  High-level design decisions like this can have a significant impact on the performance of Group Policy processing. In the January issue of TechNet Magazine , Darren Mar-Elia looks at Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:01 PM by matt_graven | 0 Comments

Inside ADM and ADMX Templates for Group Policy

If you work with Group Policy, you're probably familiar with ADM files.  But how much do you really know about them?  And now there is the new ADMX format to become familiar with.  In the January issue of TechNet Magazine , Jeremy Moskowitz Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 7:02 AM by matt_graven | 1 Comments

Dive into Advanced Group Policy Management

A company called DesktopStandard created a very useful tool, named GPOVault, for managing Group Policy Objects.  GPOVault is so useful, in fact, that it's fair to say that most any enterprise using Active Directory should have this tool. Well, Microsoft Read More...
Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 5:52 PM by matt_graven | 2 Comments

January 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine available online

The January 2008 issue of TechNet Magazine is now available online at www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issues/2008/01/ .  In this first issue of 2008, we take a close look at System Center and how it can simplify many aspects of your job. Whether Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2008 6:11 PM by matt_graven | 0 Comments

11 Essential Tools for Managing Active Directory

Active Directory is a crucial technology for managing users and groups in an enterprise, but managing user accounts or fixing configuration issues isn't always fun and games. In the September 2007 issue of TechNet Magazine, Laura E. Hunter introduces Read More...
Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

What's new in Group Policy?

Some really interesting and compelling improvements have been made to the Group Policy infrastructure in Windows Vista, not the least of which is a very powerful new file format (the XML-based ADMX file). Jeremy Moskowitz began talking about this back Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:49 AM by joshhoff | 0 Comments
 
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