Hi,

Desideri appena lascili sapere che il mio ultimo articolo “sui cambiamenti riferiti la politica del gruppo in assistente 2008 di Windows„ è liberato sopra www.windowsecurity.com.

Questo terzo articolo in serie si occupa di nuove e preferenze lucide di politica del gruppo - legga più qui…

Spero che lo gradiate!!!

/Jakob

Oggi stiamo rendendo disponibile il candidato del rilascio (RC) di Windows Vista SP1 via Microsoft collegae domani gli abbonati a TechNet e a MDSN avranno accesso a quelle punte di RC anche. In più, il RC sarà disponibile alla settimana prossima pubblica via il centro di trasferimento dal sistema centrale verso i satelliti del Microsoft. La fase del candidato del rilascio di beta software è tipicamente la fase finale prima che il RTM (liber--manufacturing) di un prodotto ed indica che il codice ha raggiunto un livello significativo delle prestazioni e della stabilità.

Lascilo dire ad alta voce parecchi cambiamenti fatti dal beta rilascio di servizio imballare 1 - molti di cui sia succed come conseguenza di risposte dirette dalla nostra Comunità Beta-esaminare (grazie!):

• Il formato degli installatori autonomi è diminuito significativamente. Per esempio, i pacchetti autonomi dell'installatore che consistono di tutte e 36 le lingue (architetture di circuito integrato x86 e x64) sono più piccoli vicino più di 50%. I pacchetti autonomi dell'installatore che consistono appena delle 5 lingue (ancora, x86 e x64) previste per il rilascio iniziale sono più di 30% più piccoli nel formato.
• La quantità richiesta di spazio di disco per installazione SP1 inoltre è diminuito significativamente. Ancora, con il RC, se più spazio è richiesto per installare SP1, un messaggio di errore ora visualizzerà esattamente quanto spazio è necessario

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If you have ever tried defining the Security Options policy setting called: "Interactive logon: Message text for users attempting to log on", you may have had some difficulties formatting the message the way you wanted it. This blog is about "how to" workaround a minor bug in the GPEDIT tool…

The issue:

First things first - the Group Policy setting is located here:

"Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Security Options\"

The value is a Multi-String registry value that allows you to make multiple lines in the message. The message pops up right after a users hits Ctrl+Alt+Del as a general warning to the user before actually logging on. But, unfortunately the formatting isn’t as perfect as it could be.

What happens is, that carriage returns are lost after formatting this "pre-logon message" with GPEDIT, imagine you would want a message like this (see Figure 3):

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I don’t know why this should be so hard? Jump next line please…

Let’s do a comma, and continue the line…
Line number

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Microsoft (MSFT: $33.76 -0.50%) has just released another version of its most-eagerly anticipated Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista, labeled as Release Candidate 1; along with another build of Windows Server 2008: the November CTP. Both releases are available to official testers from Microsoft Connect.

This is the third SP1 release made “available” to the public, starting with the leaked build back in August, followed closely by the first official release of Windows Vista SP1 beta in September.

Vista SP1 RC1 (build tag: 6001-17042-071107-1618) has been available as both an slip-streamed ISO image and a standalone upgrade utility. The slip-streamed ISO image is available in either English or Japanese, while the upgrade utility supports the five main Windows Vista localizations (Arabic, English, French, German, and Japanese).

The Windows Server 2008 November CTP (build tag: 6001-17042-071107-1618) is only available as an ISO in English in multiple flavors (Web Server & Standard Edition) for multiple platforms (x86, x64, and IA64).

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This tutorial assumes that you’re running Windows Deployment Services and want to update the default BOOT.WIM file to enhance platform compatibility, but the processes for injecting extra drivers into a WIM file are exactly the same for ANY WIM-based image.

You’ll need a full install of the WAIK, as it contains the necessary tools to manage WIM files. This can be done on any system, but if you’re running WDS it will install properly on the WDS server. Insert the DVD and select “Windows AIK Setup� and install WAIK.

Next you’ll need to create a folder to easily modify BOOT.WIM. I found it easiest to create a Temp folder, and then two more folders within that called Mount and Drivers. Then copy BOOT.WIM from the Vista DVD to the TEMP folder and rename it CUSTOMBOOT.WIM.

Now download the drivers you need, and extract them to \Temp\Drivers.

You’re not after DOS drivers – remember that this is Windows PE 2.0 so XP drivers are the best ones to use (or Windows Vista, if they’re available).

WinRAR is a great tool for extracting the contents of an EXE while maintaining…

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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