Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI) 6.1
Windows Post-Install Wizard (WPI) is a hypertext application designed for giving users choice. While Windows XP offers many ways of customizing the setup process out of the box, its major drawback is the lack of being able to select which applications an end user may install.
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29.7.2007 Xbox DRM Transfer Tool Is Released
If there's one thing Microsoft can do right most of the time is protecting its intellectual property. The software giant has always been at the forefront of creating ways to stop other people from stealing the company's work.
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30.6.2008 Microsoft Takes Heat for Office 2003 SP3 File Format Blocking
CorelDraw .CDR files are one of the formats that have been blocked. Microsoft is facing criticism from a competitor and some customers for its decision to block some older file formats with Office 2003 Service Pack 3, which it released last September
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4.1.2008 Windows Live Safety Settings Unveiled
Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed plans to offer a new service that gives parents more control over the Internet content their children can view without supervision. Called Windows Live Safety Settings, it includes content filtering for the Web, contact list management tools for communication services, and online activity reports.
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15.3.2006 Windows Update automatically changing user settings - again
After Patch Tuesday this week (October 9), some Windows Vista users noticed something strange: Windows Update had changed their Automatic Update settings and rebooted their machines automatically without their consent.
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12.10.2007 Group Policy Settings Reference Windows Vista Beta 2
This spreadsheet lists the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the administrative template files(admx/adml) delivered with Windows Vista Beta 2 (build 5384).
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26.8.2006 Group Policy Settings Reference for Microsoft Windows Vista RC1
This spreadsheet lists the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the administrative template files (admx/adml) delivered with Windows Vista RC1 (build 5600).
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13.9.2006 Microsoft Denies Changing Windows Vista Settings without Users' Consent
Microsoft denied that it is messing around with the settings of the Windows Vista operating systems without the users' consent.
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15.10.2007 Prevent 1.0 - Stop Unauthorized Copy, Delete, Move & Change of Settings
I am sure everyone has faced the situation where either their friends, colleagues, family member of kids renaming, deleting important files or changing settings like wallpaper, screen resolution etc. this is typical with younger sibling.
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17.9.2009 Windows 7 In Box – All Windows 7 Settings at One Place
So you have recently switched from Windows Xp to Windows 7 and finding it difficult to change simple settings like System settings, keyboard & Mouse settings, managing user accounts, starting various Windows tools etc.
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13.11.2009 Digital File Check
Music fans who want be safe and legal on the internet are today offered a new freely-available software programme that will help them stop their computer being used for illegal file-swapping of copyrighted music and movies.
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Free file hosting service
Host your files with the fastest growing web-hosting service in the world at slashdot.co.za!
No need to register for hosting your files. Our services are fast, easy, reliable and completely free.
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How to create .ISO from .VHD file
The way in this guide can only be done from Windows 7! And you need to have WAIK installed.
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17.6.2009 Service Offers File Sharing Over Gmail
P2P users have found a creative way to fill up the more than 2 gigabytes of e-mail storage offered by Google's Gmail: file sharing. A new service created by Dutch student Robbie Groenewoudt taps into Gmail and creates an index of files that can be accessed by other users.
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27.11.2005 File-Sharing Winners and Losers of 2005
The year 2005 was an excellent year, depending of course on your point of view. For the tech industry, BitTorrent soared to new heights while Steve Jobs enjoyed record breaking iPod sales. Yet not everyone shared this success. The RIAA continued its fight against P2P networking with little effect, as Sony-BMG disgraced itself and the DRM concept.
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26.12.2005 How to Share Large File on The Web Using MegaUpload
The following tutorial will explain you how to share a large file on the web between you and your friend or anyone else. I'm choosing
MegaUpload as an example here - not for any particular reason - but later, I might write more tutorial for other large file sharing service, such as
YouSendIt and
RapidShare.
One of the most advantage of using MegaUpload, compare with other similar service, is the duration how long your file(s) will be kept in their server. Your uploaded files will be deleted only after it become unused for 30 days. So, if many of your friends download it, over and over again, the files will always be there. The size is quite big, up to 250MB. Not as big as YouSendIt which allow up to 1GB file size, but it's more than enough to share your music files, movies, etc.
common - comments - 7.3.2006
What's New in Vista - File Select Check Box
Choosing multiple files and folders has been possible in Windows for as long as I can remember. Hold the CTRL key and choose the files and/or folders. Pretty simple, but there has to be an easier way right?
windows - comments - 1.6.2006
Zune Hack: Trade Any File, Quick
Someone clever figured out a way to transfer any type of file onto the Microsoft Zune portable media player, after which the files can be wirelessly traded to other Zune users.
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Deploy Office 2007 file converters now
Trying to mix prior versions of Microsoft's suite with the new Open XML default will leave workers bemused and befuddled, analysts predict.
microsoft - comments - 6.2.2007
Bizarre Virus Threatens to Kill File-Sharers
A strange virus which taunts file-sharers and threatens to report them to the police and even kill them, is being distributed on the Winny network.
common - comments - 2.3.2007
Restore and Reset File Association in Windows Vista
Windows Vista allows user to change and set default program association for most kind of file extension type via Control Panel’s “Set Associations” or “Set Default Programs” under “Default Programs” link.
windows - comments - 21.6.2008
DVD Jon hacks Media Player file encryption
Norway's best known IT export, DVD Jon, has hacked encryption coding in Microsoft's Windows Media Player, opening up content broadcast for the multimedia player to alternative devices on multiple platforms.
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Vista Bug Turns File Copying into Drawn-out Affair
A fix is now available for the bug that frustrates some users with extra-long wait times to move, copy or delete files.
windows - comments - 29.3.2007
How to boot a Vista system from a locally stored WIM file
The Windows AIK provides excellent opportunities to create custom Windows PE based images. Those images are provided as WIM files and can be easily converted to ISO files to be burned on CD or DVD.
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How to boot a Vista system from a locally stored WIM file
The Windows AIK provides excellent opportunities to create custom Windows PE based images. Those images are provided as WIM files and can be easily converted to ISO files to be burned on CD or DVD. WIM files can also be used to boot from the network using Windows Deployment Services.
windows - comments - 6.6.2007
Adapt the Windows 7 Hibernation File to the Memory Contents Loaded
Microsoft informed that in certain scenarios, Windows 7 computers going into hibernation could present a stop error to the end user.
windows - comments - 8.9.2009
Vista-Windows Mobile 6.0 file-sync fix due in mid-June
Even though Windows Vista has been out since January (or November, if you’re a business customer), there are still products and applications - including some from Microsoft itself - that don’t work with Vista.
windows - comments - 29.5.2007
Vista SP1's File Sharing Subsystem to "Benefit" from Thousands of Inbound Concurrent Connections
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are "aligned" operating systems despite the client and server side separation. In this context, the first service pack for Windows Vista, directly dependent of Windows Server 2008, will feature evolution in various aspects, as generated by the development of Microsoft's last 32-bit server operating system.
windows - comments - 13.12.2007
Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 - Release Candidate - DVD ISO Image File
Commerce Server 2009 (formerly known as Commerce Server 2007 code name “Mojave”) delivers the ability to increase your business reach by making it possible to sell via multiple channels using an out-of-the-box shopping site, SharePoint Commerce Services, and the Multi-Channel Commerce Foundation.
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It's Time to Face the Ugly Truth, SP3 or No SP3, the Clock Is Ticking for Windows XP
As 2008 has kicked in, it's now time to face the ugly truth. The clock is ticking for Windows XP. And while Microsoft may view this as a natural stage in the evolution of a product introduced all the way in 2001, a healthy proportion of end-users and businesses will fail to see eye to eye with the company on this one.
windows - comments - 5.1.2008
Office 2003 Service Pack 3 imminent?
Microsoft just published a
download for Office 2003
Service Pack 3 Administrative
Templates (ADM). I guess this
means Office 2003 SP3 is
around the corner.
The download includes
updated Group Policy
Administrative Template files,
OPA files, and an updated
Microsoft Excel workbook that
lists the Administrative
Template policy settings and
OPA settings.
This
download includes the
following updates:
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Policy settings that provide
the ability to block file
format settings to prevent
users from opening or saving
specific file types and file
formats in Microsoft Office
Excel 2003, Microsoft Office
PowerPoint 2003, and Microsoft
Office Word 2003.
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An updated Excel 2003 workbook
(Office 2003 Group
Policies.xls) that describes
policy settings listed in the
various Administrative
Template and OPA files. It
supports changes to the Office
2003 SP3 policy settings.
Note: This update
replaces the previously
available Office 2003 Service
Pack 2 Administrative Template
(ADM), OPAs, and Explain Text
Update download.
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25.07.2007Windows Easy Transfer Companion (Beta)
Windows Easy Transfer
Companion enables you to
automatically transfer your
most important programs from
your Windows XP-based PC to
your new Windows Vista-based
PC. The software will move
more than 100 of the most
popular programs, as well as
many others that you may have
installed.
You have complete control
over selecting which programs
to transfer, so only the
programs you care about will
move. The software will alert
you if some programs may not
be able to transfer, or may
not transfer with high
confidence. Most security
software is not able to
transfer due to technical
reasons.
Easy Transfer Companion is
designed to be used in
addition to Windows Easy
Transfer?which is part of
Windows Vista and
automatically transfers your
data and settings.
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16.02.2007WinZip 11.0 Released
WinZip 11.0 includes features
that build on the solid
foundation established with
WinZip 10.0. We applied user
feedback to help improve the
Job Wizard, and added a number
of compression and usability
enhancements, as well as the
ability to open .BZ2 and .RAR
files.
Like WinZip
10.0, you can select WinZip
11.0 with Standard or Pro
features, and both offer
compression enhancements that
make WinZip 11.0 the most
versatile WinZip ever. Our new
"best compression" option
allows you to let WinZip
decide the best compression
method for each file based on
the file type. This will
ensure that you maximize the
compression of every file that
you add to your Zip file.
WinZip 11.0 also allows you to
better zip .wav music files
without compromising the
integrity of the file or its
sound quality. What's more,
if you need to open a .BZ2 or
.RAR file, WinZip can now be
your tool of choice.
If you depend on WinZip
Pro's Job Wizard to back up
data sets, archive important
documents, or distribute
information to others on a
regular basis, you'll
appreciate the enhancements
available in WinZip 11.0 Pro.
Now you can configure the Job
Wizard to email the log file
and/or resulting Zip file
automatically after
completion, use our new
"browse" feature to find a
specific folder on an FTP
server, and select custom jobs
directly from the Job Wizard
and Quick Pick menus.
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15.11.2006Office 2003 SP3: Are new formats more secure?
Blocking old file formats in the Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) release was meant to bolster security for Microsoft customers, but whether the new
formats are any more secure than older ones is debatable.
Few within IT feel compelled to side with Microsoft when debates over
file formats, backward compatibility and security emerge, yet the Redmond software giant's decision to block a swathe of old formats such as pre-97
PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Corel Draw formats has been met with sympathy from analysts.
Microsoft said it was attempting to
address security concerns by blocking the older file formats. "By default, these file types are blocked because the parsing code that Office 2003
uses to open and save the file types is less secure. Therefore, opening and saving these file types may pose a risk to you," it said in its advisory.
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08.01.2008Windows Easy Transfer for Windows XP 6.0
This software installs Windows
Easy Transfer on a Windows XP
based PC. This software is
already built into Windows
Vista, so it is not necessary
to install it on a Windows
Vista based PC.
Windows Easy
Transfer enables you to
automatically copy your files,
photos, music, email,
settings, and more to your new
Windows Vista based PC. This
makes it much easier to setup
your new computer with all
your personal data and
settings. This software
provides support for
transfering data with Easy
Transfer Cables or across a
network, external drive, or
CD/DVD.
As an alternative to
downloading, Windows Easy
Transfer can be installed from
the CD that came with your
Easy Transfer Cable, or by
following the directions in
the Windows Vista version of
Windows Easy Transfer on how
to copy the program to Windows
XP.
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12.04.2007Microsoft apologizes to Corel, users for Office 2003 SP3 muck-up
Microsoft Corp. apologized to a software rival yesterday for saying its file format posed a security risk and issued new tools to let users of Office
2003 SP3 unblock a host of barred file types.
In a posting to his own blog, David LeBlanc, a senior software development engineer
with the Microsoft Office team,
admitted the company's mistake in blaming insecure file formats, including the one used by CorelDraw.
"We
stated that it was the file formats that were insecure, but this is actually not correct," LeBlanc said, referring to a description in a now-changed
support document. "A file format isn't insecure -- it's the code that reads the format that's more or less secure. The parsers we use for these
older formats aren't as robust as the code we've written more recently, which is part of our decision to disable them by default.
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06.01.2008IBM Builds Super Fast File
System
IBM on Thursday announced that
it had scored a breakthrough
in file system technology that
increases the speed of data
access by seven times.
Researchers were able to
attain a 102-gigabyte per
second transfer rate on the
ASC Purple supercomputer at
Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory in a recent test...
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10.03.2006Updated Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images Available
VPC Hard Disk Image for testing websites with different IE versions on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista.
This
download page contains four separate VPC images, depending on what you want to test.
- IE6-XPSP3_VPC.exe contains a Windows
XP SP3 with IE6 VHD file
- IE7-XPSP2_VPC.exe contains a Windows XP SP2 with IE7 VHD file
- IE8B2-XPSP3_VPC.exe
contains a Windows XP SP3 with IE8 Beta 2 VHD file
- IE7-VIS1.exe+IE7-VIS2.rar+IE7-VIS3.rar contain a Vista Image with IE7 VHD
file.
Note: For The Vista image, you will need all three files, downloaded and in the same directory, then simply run
IE7-VIS1.exe.
This VPC image will expire in January, 2009.
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29.08.2008Microsoft To Release XP SP3 Next Week
Now that Windows Vista service pack 1 has been released, all eyes have shifted to Microsoft's plans for Windows XP service pack 3, the final
package of updates for the trusty OS. And, according to at least one source, Microsoft will roll out XP SP3 next Monday. As of Wednesday afternoon
Pacific time, the BitTorrent search engine Mininova listed a 568.73 MB Windows XP Professional SP3 5503 file available for download. The file, which
had 112 seeds and 417 leeches, had been downloaded 2083 times since it was posted Tuesday, according to the listing.
According to the file
description notes, Microsoft will release the final version of XP SP3 on March 24, but the 5503 test build passes all Windows Genuine Advantage checks
and is able to download Windows updates that previous XP SP3 builds weren't able to, which suggests that it could, in fact, be the final RTM
build. When Microsoft released Vista SP1 in February, the final RTM code was identical to the Vista SP1 Release Candidate (RC) 1 Refresh 2 test build
that was released to a group of 15,000 testers two weeks earlier.
A Microsoft spokesperson, perhaps weary from the months-long barrage of
Vista SP1 related inquiries, said the final version of XP SP3 is still on target to be released the first half of calendar year 2008, and the XP SP3
5503 build was a minor interim build released to address one specific issue for a subset of private beta testers.
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21.03.2008Group Policy Settings Reference Windows Server 2008
This spreadsheet lists the policy settings for computer and user configurations included in the Administrative template files (.admx/.adml) delivered
with Windows Server 2008. The policy settings included in this spreadsheet cover Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP
Professional, and Windows 2000. You can configure these policy settings when you edit Group Policy objects (GPOs).
In addition,
this spreadsheet includes the following categories of security policy settings:
- Account Policies (Password Policy, Account
Lockout Policy, and Kerberos Policy)
- Local Policies (Audit Policy, User Rights Assignment, and Security Options)
- Event Log
- Restricted Groups
- System Services
- Registry
- File System policy settings.
Note: This
does not include security settings that exist outside of the Security Settings extension (scecli.dll), such as Wireless Network extension, Public Key
Policies, or Software Restriction Policies.
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06.02.2008Despite rumors, Windows XP SP3 still not quite ready
With Windows Vista Service Pack 1 out the door, Microsoft was largely expected to release Windows XP SP3 last week or this week. It didn't, instead
making public a refresh build of SP3 Release Candidate 2...
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26.03.2008Windows XP SP3 RC1 Public Download Available
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new
functionalities, which do not significantly change customers experience with the operating system.
File Size: 336,070 KB
See
here for more info.
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12.12.2007Microsoft patched critical Windows bug in XP SP3 early
The appearance and disappearance of a Windows XP installation snafu indicates that Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in XP's
still-unfinished Service Pack 3 (SP3) weeks before it fixed any other version of Windows. The glitch, which sent some PCs into an endless round of
reboots, was strangely similar to one faced by Vista users in February. Attackers have already tried to exploit that bug, which was patched last
Tuesday -- as it turned out, two weeks after the newest build of Windows XP SP3 was released with the flaw fixed.
According to reports from
multiple users on a Microsoft support newsgroup, PCs began rebooting immediately after they had been updated to SP3. "I have just updated my pc from
xp sp2 to sp3," said a user identified as "yaojinglin" in a message to a SP3 support forum last Thursday. "The installation was successful, but
when I reboot my pc after the installation finished, my pc started to reboot again and again."
On the XP SP3 support threads, a Microsoft
representative named Shashank Bansal stepped into the rebooting discussion, which was beginning to seem as endless as the rebooting itself. Bansal
asked for more information, then offered an explanation: "This issue happens with 3311 build of XP SP3. It happens because KB948590 stops
installation of SP3 version of gdi32.dll on the system due to file-version differences."
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15.04.2008Proposed flash standard to reduce card clutter
A new flash memory card specification has the backing of three major mobile phone companies and other parts of the electronics industry.
The Unified Flash Storage (UFS; not to be confused with Unix File System or Unified File System) specification is intended to eliminate the
need for adaptors by defining a single memory card format that is suitable for any consumer device including cameras, phones and PDAs.
If manufacturers can't agree to use any one of the formats currently in use, why would they go along with a new one? The answer appears to
be that UFS is being designed to overcome various limitations of existing formats, including capacity, performance and power consumption.
There seems to be no end to customer demand for increased memory for cameras and other devices (especially as image resolution improves), and
without greater transfer speed it will take longer and longer to dump memory card contents into a computer or a mass storage device. UFS aims to
reduce the time taken to transfer a 4G file from three minutes to a few seconds. The specification will improve both the bandwidth and latency of
memory access...
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17.09.2007Updates to Office 2003 include changes made in Office 2003 Service Pack 3
Nick MacKechnie: As you may know,
Office 2003
Service Pack 3 contains
some changes to the behaviour of Office. For
example, certain file types cannot be opened or saved by default, although you can re-enable this functionality by setting registry keys as described
in
this Microsoft Knowledge Base article and on
David LeBlancs Blog. A common
question is whether these behaviour changes are included in post-SP3 security updates. In short, yes: post-SP3 security updates contain behaviour
changes first released in SP3. This post will briefly describe why that occurs and will outline which updates contain which changes.
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15.04.2008Microsoft extends the Windows XP SP3 Beta testers
For more info,
see our news post from yesterday.
Spy: This morning I received an email from the Connect team advising that the Windows XP SP3 Beta program has been expanded to include those
already in the Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 Beta trials.
The actual file name for the beta hasn't changed any since Bink
reported his results back in August.
So it seems like Windows XP SP3 is moving through the final stages of testing before release. That's good news.
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05.10.2007Microsoft continues to warn of IE8 lock-in for XP SP3 users
Last year when Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, Jane Maliouta announced that consumers using Windows XP SP3 would be locked-in with the
IE8 if they had installed the IE8 beta prior to upgrading to SP3. Microsoft again yesterday issued that same warning to it's consumers. If you are
still one of the millions of users on Windows XP with SP3 installed, Microsoft has provided crucial steps to follow if you're ready to upgrade to
IE8 RC1. You can obtain IE8 RC1 from the links on this page. To see if you're one of the people who will have IE8 locked in, follow these steps.
Is your computer running Windows XP SP3?
Read full story.....
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27.01.2009Microsoft Takes Heat for Office 2003 SP3 File Format Block
Microsoft is facing criticism from a competitor and some customers for its decision to block some older file formats with Office 2003 Service Pack 3,
which it released last September. The only non-Microsoft file format that was blocked by Service Pack 3 was CorelDraw .CDR files.
"CorelDraw users can rest assured that they can still use the CorelDraw Graphics Suite normally on a system where Microsoft Office 2003 Service
Pack 3 has been installed," Gerard Metrallier, Corel's director of graphics product management, said in a statement released Jan. 3. "This
update from Microsoft does not impact CorelDraw at all or the capability of opening .CDR files from within CorelDraw or from Windows Explorer," he
said. The service pack also blocks some of Microsoft's own file formats, according to a Knowledge Base article the company released that covers
the issue.
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04.01.2008Controlling Group Policy Security Settings Refresh and Application
There is no question that Group Policy inside Active Directory is the most efficient and logical way to configure and maintain security for all of
your domain controllers, servers, and desktops. The question becomes how to maintain and control the application of the security settings, as well as
the refresh of settings that you make in a Group Policy object (GPO)? There are many ways to control how security settings are refreshed and
controlled, some of which are already occurring on your network now and can be tweaked if you want to go down that path. This article will go into the
different methods that are available for controlling how security settings refresh and apply from Group Policy.
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06.08.2008Windows XP SP3 moves closer to completion
Beta testers have received access to a release candidate of Windows XP Service Pack 3, but general consumers still have a long wait until they'll see
SP3 available for download...
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