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Savings from power managing your desktop may be bigger than you realize

Another option for Power managementI have responded to blogs on the topic of power management a number of times and hope that some have taken my advice.I have rolled out a power management scheme for free with the help of the Cadmus Group. They are working with the EPA /...

Tags: power management, GPO, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-09-23

XP Power Management group policy tool

XP Power Management group policy toolNice GeorgeWe push down a registry ACL that allows users to manage power settings themselves.Sorry George, but this is useles for me.All of us still refusing to join the land of Microsoft's Active Directory find this a pretty useless point. Though we should all...

Tags: Directory services, Network security, Digital security, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Windows 2003, ACL, Novell NDS, Microsoft Windows, Nucrash, group policy, power management, GPO

Discussion threads 2006-12-05

Mozilla CEO: Why they're still shunned by corporate IT

Mozilla CEO: Why they're still shunned by corporate ITTry checking ZDNet renderingZDNet talkback does not render correctly in Firefox. Fix the flaws first, then complain that shops don't use it.Mozilla and other browsers that are not IEGates was smart to appeal to business. Microsoft is the world standard...

Tags: Web browsers, GPO, information technology, Microsoft Corp., W3C, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-05-24

Public (digital) printer quits

In the midst of an effort to bring the Government Printing Office into the digital age, Public Printer Bruce James announced he is quitting. He has been in office three and a half years, although he promised to stay in the job for five, Federal Computer Week reports.James told FCW...

Tags: GPO

Blog posts 2006-04-13

Is the GPO still relevant in the digital age?

The Washington Post takes a look at the Government Printing Office in the age of the digital printing press. Post reporter Zachary Goldfarb finds an agency confronting two major challenges - how to maintain relevancy when agencies can publish their documents directly to the Web, and how to ensure...

Tags: passport, GPO

Blog posts 2006-03-13

Additional Resources

US Defense Department to partially lift flash drive ban

I never understood the ban...All that was needed was a registry entry to disable autorun so it did not parse the autorun.inf file, then use GPO's to disable autoplay. I guess its better to be safe then sorry but still...It is trange that this Autorun function...

Tags: Flash memory, Cyberthreats, Autorun, USB flash drive, time-I, U.S. Department of Defense

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

XP to Vista? No, if it ain't broken, don't upgrade it

XP is not broke,Vista new improved or fixed anything.Message has been deleted.I will have to agree with Zack on this one..MS of course wants to convince you that you need an upgrade so Stevey's stock goes up. MS controls the OEM's like a over bearing husband. I will conclude that...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Well XP, UAC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

Microsoft says Google Chrome Frame doubles IE attack surface

Actually, it means that some of the browsing will be much safer by using Chrome. Notice that Microsoft's ONLY arguments here are bogus security arguments. They do not even try to deny that Chrome is much faster and better.RE: Microsoft says Google Chrome Frame doubles IE attack surfaceIf Google Chrome...

Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Chrome, Microsoft Corp., Web browser, plug-in

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

Exe to Msi Converter free 1.0 (Windows)

A free tool to quickly convert Setup Executable (.exe) to Windows Installer Packages (.msi). A MSI packages can be used to deploy software via GPO and for SMS package distribution. Supported msi install actions only. Select Executable file, enter Arguments and click the Build MSI button for output as MSI...

Tags: Windows Installer, QwertyLab, Microsoft Windows, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Productivity, Cellular Phones, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking

Software downloads 2009-09-09

Microsoft to push 'mandatory' Live Messenger security patch

More details on the Microsoft ATL vulnerabilities I am sure that this vulnerability is only for Windows XP. We have been assured by the Windows experts on this site that Windows Vista and 7 are very secure. So It could not affect them.Existence of security patches means an...

Tags: Patches, Microsoft Windows, security patch, Live Messenger, security, GPO Support, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

RingCube vDesk Customer Profile

I find that speaking with actual users of a product or a technology brings out a different view of a company and its products. This time, I had a chance to communicate with a user of RingCube's vDesk (see RingCube vDesk for more information about vDesk.) Here's a summary of...

Tags: Team, PC, RingCube Technologies Inc., RingCube vDesk, Jeff B., Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Team Management, Virtualization, Hardware, Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-08-06

TechNet Webcast: Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Group Policy Changes (Level 300)

The presenter of this webcast will explore Group Policy enhancements in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. The presenter will show how Administrative template improvements make it easier to configure and Group Policy preference improvements to configure defaults for non-Group Policy-aware Windows components. Then the presenter will discuss Starter...

Tags: Group Policy, Webcast, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft TechNet, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software

Webcasts 2009-07-14

To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket Foundry

To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket FoundryResourceAn excellent resource on the Saturn program is "Stages to Saturn", by Roger E. Bilstein. It is part of the NASA History Series (NASA catalog number SP-4206), and is still available (US$50, + shipping) from the US GPO (http://bookstore.gpo.gov/subjects/sb-222.jsp).While being somewhat dry as...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Rocket Foundry, Boeing Co., Saturn, F-1

Discussion threads 2009-07-11

ChangeAuditor for Active Directory

ChangeAuditor drives the security and control of Active Directory by tracking all key Active Directory configuration changes in real-time. From Group Policy Objects GPO and Schema changes to critical nested group and operational changes, ChangeAuditor tracks, audits, reports and alerts on the changes that impact your directory—without the overhead of...

Tags: Audit, ScriptLogic Corp., ChangeAuditor, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance

Download resources 2009-05-26

Botnet exploiting MS0867 flaws (Inside the botnets that never make the news)

Botnet exploiting MS0867 flaws Inside the botnets that never make the newsBlock IRC traffic completelyThat's the solution. IRC traffic has no place in business environments.Image 5...Did you do the obfuscating? If not, how do you know they're all on the same server?How pray tell?You're forgetting, any type of...

Tags: Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Stateful Packet Inspection, IRC traffic, IRC, BotNet

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

Desktop Central Free Windows Tools 2.5 (Windows)

Desktop Central provides a set of free Windows tools that Windows Administrators might require on a day-to-day basis. It has a set of 12 tools, viz: Remote Task Manager Tool, Wake on LAN, Software Inventory Tool, Remote Command Prompt Tool, GPO Update, Shutdown/Restart Tool, Join/Unjoin Computer Tool, , Currently Logged...

Tags: Desktop, Hard-disk Space, Laptop Battery, AdventNet Inc., Tool, Desktop Central, Productivity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-04-23

Skipping Vista

Skipping VistaYou're absolutely rightas many who talk the talk will not be walking the walk. I'd go as far as to say that most will accede to the wishes of Microsoft and move to Windows 7. What I do see, however, is that the sheep are getting nervous, and a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Skipping Vista, Microsoft Windows XP

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Survey: Close to half of U.S. workers still fail to power down PCs at night

Survey: Close to half of U.S. workers still fail to power down PCs at nightPart of the IT policy world.I live in that world where IT sends nasty emails if they try to do an update during the night and your computer is turned off. But I arrive at work...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, U.S. Workers, computer, PC, survey, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-03-26

Five reasons to consider PC power management

Five reasons to consider PC power managementVista has power management built in.....and the gubmn't has had a GPO power management tool available for some time George Ou blogged about ithttp://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=power_mgt.pr_power_mgt_ez_gpo- Sam

Tags: power management, PC power management, PC

Discussion threads 2009-02-13

Microsoft: UAC security setting not changing (for now)

Microsoft: UAC security setting not changing for nowWhy is this so confusing?I'm not understanding Microsoft's position here. Didn't they get lambasted for the default everyone NT security model? Now their efforst come down to a "well, it's mostly secure now" default method? Seriously. They must be idiots.How about a simple,...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., UAC, security

Discussion threads 2009-02-05