Every now and then I’ve needed to configure Group Policy settings locally or offline and backup/restore them to another computer. Here’s a simple way to do so. It can even be used to bake the settings into an image for mass deployments. This is documented from a Windows 7 system box, but it may work [...]
Introduction A common difficulty in desktop management is configuring per-user settings. Active Setup is a process that runs automatically every time a user logs in to a computer that can address this problem in a simple and flexible way. If your application requires installation of components such as files or registry keys on a per-user [...]
Lots of big changes in the latest versions of these two products. I’ve been running Windows Server 2008 R2 RC with Hyper-V on my main laptop for a couple of months now and am completely impressed. Here are the top features (but there are a ton more) from the Windows Server Division Weblog: [...]
It took a bit of time to find MDM resources online. Here’s what I used the most: Websites, Blogs & Forums Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager TechCenter – launch page for all Microsoft MDM resources Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager Forum – best place for community help The System Center Mobile Device [...]
Simplifying mobile device management is not so simple… I recently had the challenging experience of designing and implementing a Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 SP1 solution. If you’ve worked with the product then you know that the Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) is an invaluable tool to determine the answer to the inevitable question, “Why the [...]
