For those of you who missed the webinar I did yesterday on "Securing Desktops with Group Policy", you can register to view the on-demand version here. If you did attend, thanks for listening! We had a good crowd and lots of good questions!
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Posted by: Darren Mar-Elia
Under the category of "you learn something new every day" I was playing around with some stuff yesterday and finally got a chance to confirm something that someone had posted on the ActiveDir mailing list. We all know about how some policies tattoo the registry. Security policies are typically one of those areas where, if you remove a setting, the systems applying that policy are not necessarily reverted back to the prior setting because, well, the system ...
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This topic came up on a newsgroup the other day, prompting me to look around a bit. Basically, MS added support for the newer WPA2 encryption protocol for wireless networks in XP, SP2. This KB article describes the Wireless Client update that you can apply to your XP systems to get them to process those WPA2 policies. But here’s the catch–this update only allows these systems to process the wireless policies. It does not allow them to actually edit those policies. ...
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