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Revisited Longhorn 1.6 Theme - Free Download

A great Spring looking theme for Windows Vista. This theme has some great little hover effects and a nice transparent feel. Wonderful color changes on the start menu and taskbar. A great color selection with some subtle magic touches make this theme a pleasure to use.
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Written by MyVistaThemes.com on February 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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Microsoft Releases Vista, XP and Longhorn Service Pack Blocker Tool

Microsoft has just posted a Blocker tool on its download site (Dec 6,07) that will block automatic installations of several upcoming service packs, including Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP SP3. …

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Written by pcwizkid.tech.talk@gmail.com (PCWizKid) on December 7th, 2007 with no comments.
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Windows Server 2008 RC1 Available For Download

Microsoft will launch the final version of the server OS at a February 27th event in Los Angeles which the company is calling ‘Heroes Happen Here,’ . Also to be unveiled is Microsoft SQL Server 2008…

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Written by pcwizkid.tech.talk@gmail.com (PCWizKid) on December 5th, 2007 with no comments.
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Group Policy Revolution Coming Up!

It’s exciting, fantastic, amazing, wonderful and totally cool - Microsoft has FINALLY announced what is going to happen with the PolicyMaker stuff they got when taking over DesktopStandards… It’s going to be released with Windows Server 2008 as many of us had hoped for!

This is just GREAT I can tell you - and it will available to the public with the RC1 release of Windows Server 2008, maybe even before as a separate Beta program I’m told…

Microsoft decided to call it “Group Policy Preferences” or just “GP Preferences”. So, what can we do with this you ask? Well, here’s some of it:

Map network drives
Set Environment variables
Copy Files to clients
Create and update INI files
Modify registry settings on the clients (REG_SZ, REG_DWORD, REG_BINARY, REG_MULTI_SZ, and REG_EXPAND_SZ )
Create Shortcuts (URL/File/Shell)
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
Control Devices
Set Folder Options
Define File Associations
Tweak Internet Settings
Handle Local Users and Groups (change passwords, add/remove from groups, disable users etc.)
Set Network Options (like VPN or Dial-Up connections)
Configure Power Options (Windows XP)
Map Printers (even TCP/IP printers)
Set Regional Options
Create Scheduled Tasks
Set properties on Services
Tweak the Start Menu
and so on….

As you can see, it’s quite impressive and something that will make companies around the world turn to Windows Server 2008 ASAP… I think and

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on November 13th, 2007 with no comments.
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Starter GPO’s - what are they?

With Windows Server 2008 (Codename Longhorn) you will notice a new container called “Starter GPOs” inside the GPMC (version 2.0 - BTW this version will also be available as a separate download for Windows Vista with SP1).

This new container can hold what I would call “templates” for creating new GPO’s - with the limitation that only Administrative Template settings are available. When creating new GPO’s you can choose to use a Starter GPO as the source (read: template) - which makes it easy and fast to create multiple GPO’s with the same baseline configuration.

But, the very cool thing is that you can now “export” those GPO templates (Starter GPO’s) to a Cabinet file (.CAB) and then import into another environment - completely independent of the source domain/forest! So, you can create the PERFECT Starter GPO and then bring it around the world, share it on the Internet (if legal?), deploy it on all systems you can get a hold on etc. etc.

When you ‘enable’ Starter GPO’s in the domain for the first time, a folder called “StarterGPOs” is created inside the SYSVOL folder (\\domain.com\SYSVOL\domain.com\StarterGPOs) - this is where all the “magic” is done… For

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Written by Jakob H. Heidelberg on October 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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