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The Many Faces of Windows Configuration Management

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The Many Faces of Windows Configuration Management

I was reading Paul Thurrott’s most recent column on the Windows IT Pro Magazine website today. The column ostensibly talked about naming of features and products in Windows 8, but at the bottom, was this interesting tidbit,

“Blurring the lines in a way that’s almost diabolical, Microsoft recently announced that it’s introducing yet another form of PC/device management that will somewhat straddle the line between device-based management through EAS and full PC management with Active ...
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MAY
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Categories: General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, Microsoft-Related

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Backing up and restoring the Local GPO

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Some of you may have seen a twitter post I did a while back letting folks know about the Security Compliance Manager, which is a tool from Microsoft that lets you manage, edit, report, search and export security templates and baselines. This tool is pretty cool, but it also has a hidden gem in it. When you install the SCM, you will notice a folder within its program group called “LocalGPO”, which contains a package called ...

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JUL
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Categories: General Stuff, Microsoft-Related, Security Policy, Security-related

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AGPM Planning Guide released

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Just a quick note for those of you using or thinking about using Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) product for Group Policy Change Control. MS has just released a planning guide for AGPM here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5ed2bcd7-214a-4606-8e91-369c3623ee89&DisplayLang=en

AGPM is another by-product of Microsoft’s acquisition of DesktopStandard (formerly known as GPO Vault) and is available as part of the Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) for MS Software Assurance customers. Its definitely a cool product and a must-have for shops looking to manage change within their GP ...

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FEB
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Opportunity for providing Microsoft feedback on Server Management

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Hey Folks. The Group Policy Team at Microsoft is looking for feedback on managing Windows Servers. They’ve put a survey up online. If you want to get your feedback and experiences heard, and incorporated into future products, this is an ideal opportunity to do it! The survey is up until July 15th so get in there!

 

 

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JUN
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