Category: Microsoft

Microsoft Security Essentials

There has been a lot of talk about Microsoft Security Essentials (Codename Morro) so i decided to acquire a copy from a colleague at HP for testing. So i fired up my lab pc’s, which include a few flavours of Windows, including 32bit and 64bit Versions of Vista....

Group Policy & Internet Explorer

Its a problem come across most often, you change something in your internet explorer Group Policy Object and now suddenly a dozen or so users are getting the information bar or have popup’s informing them they are switching to https connections. Anyone who has worked with group policy will...

Windows 7 Version Breakdown (Engadget)

From www.engadget.com Remember that screenshot we saw of all those different Windows 7 versions (pictured above)? Well guess what? It’s worse than you could have possibly imagined. The following will be the actual new SKUs for the OS: Windows 7 Starter (limited to three apps concurrently) Windows 7 Home...

Windows 2008 Active Directory (New forest)

Hi, i am going to start a series of blog entries on setting up a Windows 2008 Based infrastructure, this may be helpful as a reference for System administrators with limited experience with Active Directory and other Windows 2008 Features to have a reference for setting up 2008 related...