New Group Policy Blog – Group Policy Center

January 18, 2010

An old colleague of mine, Alan Burchill, has started a new blog dedicated to Group Policy – Group Policy Center. He’s started to get some great content up there and I expect much more to come.
Alan has an excellent set of posts covering Group Policy Setting of the Week, although at that rate I calculate that it’s going [...]

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RemoteApp for Hyper-V. Hyper what?

December 17, 2009

Microsoft posted about RemoteApp for Hyper-V yesterday, which was essentially highlighting the application publishing capabilities available in Windows XP mode and Windows Virtual PC; however this particular blog post calls out the use of RemoteApp to publish applications on Windows XP and Vista guests running under Hyper-V.
It’s fantastic to see this capability provided in the [...]

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Roaming Local Settings in Office 2010

December 10, 2009

Good news! Office 2010 fixes the Office 2007 issue, where-by you need to resort to implementing fixes yourself, to get Quick Access Toolbar and the new customisable Ribbon to roam between computers. You’ll have to remember to enable this option yourself though – create a Setup customisation with the Office Customisation Tool and enable the [...]

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Déjà vu at Citrix Community

December 3, 2009

Hey Citrix, I really only need to read something once:

Visibility for posts is great and all, but why must Citrix insist on cross-posting to as many blogs as possible?

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Dell owners – avoid the IDT 92HDxxx HD Audio driver

October 29, 2009

I’ve been mucking around with MDT 2010 lately, which has made it pretty simple to create an unattended install routine for my Dell Latitude XT2 (hopefully more on that soon) and to inject drivers into the build; however in doing so I’ve found a nasty bug in the IDT 92HDxxx HD Audio drivers from Dell (version 6.10.0.6217, A09).
This particular [...]

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We’re gonna need a bigger hard drive

August 18, 2009

While attempting to unzip a file this afternoon, Windows was just not going to play ball:

That’s 5.99 petabytes – I’m probably not going to see that much storage space in a desktop machine for a few years. Although I’m not sure why there is a ‘Try Again’ button on this dialog box, maybe it’s expecting me [...]

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Use a PAC file to make proxy settings dynamic

June 23, 2009

Are you deploying browser proxy settings by setting a proxy server and attempting to manage a proxy bypass list? There is a better way..
Fortunately Jason Curnow, who’s had many years experience working with PAC files, has a website where he’s documented his experiences and shows you how to create your own – The Proxy PAC [...]

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