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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft has published new Vista tool called Group Policy Log View. Its name tells everything about its purpose. Vista's GPO processing takes advantage of new event logging subsystem Crimson and stores a lot of data about GPO processing in event logs. This tool allows You to create TXT, XML or HTML report from these events. Report … Continue reading "Vista Group Policy Log View"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf You need Windows XP SP2 \ IE 6 client virtual machine for testing purposes or just for browsing You can download pre-configured (and activated) VHD image (1.5 Gb) from Microsoft. It contains Windows XP SP2\ IE6 and IE7 Readiness Toolkit. System installed on this VHD will expire on 04/01/2007.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNew download called Windows Automated Installation Kit just showed up on Downloads. According to its description: (…) Use this tool to configure unattended setup answer files (Unattend.xml) and capture images. (…) It support Windows 2003/XP/Vista. There is nothing more what I can tell You about it just now, I will have to test it and … Continue reading "Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK)"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMost of people dealing with Active Directory knows or heard of Active Directory Migration Guide. With version 3 being current, this tool allows to migrate data between Windows NT\Active Directory domains, helping in migration and domain restructuring scenario. Microsoft has published ADMTv3 migration guide document which should be useful for those who are planning to … Continue reading "ADMTv3 migration guide"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteADM templates are hot this week. Right after publishing PowerShell ADM templates for PowerShell showed up on Microsoft Downloads. IE7 ADM templates also were published today. 

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft has published on Downloads Office 2007 ADM templates for downloads. As Office 2007 will be launched soon and may start to show up in our networks maybe it is worth to take a look at ADM possibilities before this will happen.

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSysinternals tools have new home at TechNet – if You need it now You can find at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/. With new home, new tool was added to SysInternals toolset –  ProcessMonitor, which has functionality of Regmon and Filemon, plus monitoring of processes and threads in one tool

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI'm just catching up with my RSS feeds after few days being off-line (failed power supply may be very troublesome) and I found interesting link at Kim's Cameron blog. Kim is presenting Microsoft Whitepaper titled The Identity Metasystem: Towards a Privacy-Compliant Solution to the Challenges of Digital Identity which is about Identity Metasystem, InfoCards and … Continue reading "Identity Metasystem whitepaper"

Reading Time: < 1 minute In case that someone who is reading this blog is not subscribed to joe's blog or notification list (unlikely) I want to inform that two of joe's tools, which are ultimate … great tools for AD get updated. These two tools are: AdFind – which allows You to search for anything You want to in … Continue reading "AdMod and AdFind updated"

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs we can read on MSRC blog, Microsoft has published out of band patch for VML vulnerability existing in IE. This flaw was described in Microsoft Security Advisory (925568) published lately. Bug patched by this update allows remote code execution so it should be applied as soon as it will be possible (some people do some tests and other … Continue reading "VML patch (MS06-055) released out of band"