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Gain More Control: Group Policy Preferences

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Every organization has an ideal balance of user rights for optimized security and business efficiency. Use these 21 preferences to target controls related to printers, Internet Explorer, power management, file manipulation, device restriction, and more.


Exchange 2007 Distribution Groups

By J. Peter Bruzzese, 07/22/2009

Exchange Server 2007's dynamic distribution groups let you use one email address to reach multiple recipients.

Custom Attributes in Exchange Server 2007 Dynamic Distribution Groups

By J. Peter Bruzzese, 07/22/2009

Custom attributes let you go beyond Exchange Server 2007's precanned filters for dynamic distribution groups.

More Control Through Group Policy Preferences

By Jeremy Moskowitz, 07/20/2009

how these extensions give you more options for deploying printers, restricting devices, managing users and groups, and help out with other common Group Policy tasks.

Six SharePoint Potholes

By Dan Holme, 07/16/2009

Potholes in the road to implementing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) can cause an implementation to go in the wrong direction, slow ...

Powercfg Gets Sleepy

By Mark Minasi, 07/16/2009

The Vista/Server 2008 incarnation of Powercfg lets you bypass your system's annoying "hybrid sleep" behavior.

What You Need to Know About Google Wave

By Paul Thurrott, 07/16/2009

Google’s forthcoming web platform, Google Wave, is fascinating in that it can both replace existing email, IM, and social networking solutions and work well with them.

Where to Get the Scoop on SharePoint's User Profiles

By Dan Holme, 07/16/2009

Want to learn more about SharePoint user profiles? Start with these resources.

Review: Lenovo ThinkStation S20

By Douglas Toombs, 07/16/2009

Lenovo's powerful ThinkStation S20 is great for compute-intensive tasks, and it's affordably priced for any organization.

Paul's Picks

By Paul Thurrott, 07/16/2009

Windows XP mode in Windows 7 will help SMBs; Windows Mobile 6.5's UI hides the fact that nothing much has changed.

The Trick to Opening a Top Link Bar URL in a Separate Window

By Jian Bo, 07/15/2009

SharePoint doesn't come with an out-of-the-box solution for opening a top link bar URL in a separate Internet Explorer (IE) window. However, you can use a relatively simple ...

Tool Time: Portable Text Editing with PrimalPad

By Alex K. Angelopoulos, 07/15/2009

SAPIEN Technologies' new free text editor is a better text editor than Notepad. It has complete VBScript highlighting support and is truly portable.

Under the Covers with Xperf

By Michael Morales, 07/15/2009

Get insight into your system's most processor-intensive operations, by using the Microsoft Xperf tool to perform a stackwalking trace, then viewing trace-file data and ...

Let Users Easily Find and Connect to Printers

By Peder Pedersen, 07/15/2009

IIS lets you set up Internet printing. By using Internet printing and creating a printer map on your intranet, you can have users find the closest printer to them and connect to ...

Review: Acer Aspire One with Linpus Linux

By Jeff James, 07/07/2009

While the Linux option may seem quirky and non-standard to users accustomed to running Windows, opting for Linux does have some advantages.

Review: Acer Aspire One

By Jeff James, 07/07/2009

The Acer Aspire One is a lightweight, low-cost, competent netbook, available in two models: one with Windows, and one with Linux.

VMware Workstation 6.5 Review

By Zac Wiggy, 06/25/2009

Need to run several OSs or test a number of platforms? VMware Workstation provides advanced OS virtualization that's easy to use.

How the Economic Downturn is Driving IT Innovation

By Jeff James, 06/24/2009

Necessity is most definitely the mother of invention, and two IT vendors may find themselves well-positioned to fit the needs of resource-starved IT staff: Spiceworks and ...

Letters

By Various Authors, 06/18/2009

Readers respond to Windows 7 licensing and the new OS's philosophy, as well as Robert Sheldon's PowerShell series of articles and the specter of Bing.

Best of TechEd 2009 Award Winners

By Editors, 06/11/2009

The Best of TechEd Awards recognize the most innovative products and services offered by Microsoft partners that exhibited at TechEd 2009, held in June 2009 at the Los Angeles ...

Cool Free Tools for Windows Admins

By Michael Otey, 06/02/2009

Use these utilities to perform network or desktop maintenance, recover deleted files, burn ISO images and copy boot partitions, and other Windows administrative tasks.


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