June 2008 - Dan Holme - Intelliem Community

Role Based Management (TechEd 2008)

Thanks for your patience awaiting the scripts I used in our Role Based Management session on Friday, June 13th. I was wiped out from the event, had a full day of travel on Saturday, and slept most of Sunday. The scripts can be found at Role Based Management...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 11:15 AM by danholme

Filed under: Role Based Management, Groups

Reimagining IT Administration (TechEd 2008)

Thanks for your patience, everyone! I've zipped up all of the tools & scripts that I demonstrated in the REIMAGINING IT ADMINISTRATION session (the last session on Friday) and you can download them here These tools are the HTAs that I hooked into...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 11:04 AM by danholme

File Share Provisioning Tool (TechEd 2008)

The tool I demonstrated in my session today can be downloaded here . I hope you enjoy the scripts and that you enjoyed the session! PLEASE do not hesitate to ask questions. You are certainly welcome to email me directly, but you can also just post a question...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2008 6:56 AM by danholme

Provision Computers Article

Microsoft Press Online will be releasing an excerpt from the Windows Administration Resource Kit, entitled Provision Computers . (The URL will be posted when the article is released.) The article refers to an HTML Application (HTA), which can be downloaded...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 4:32 AM by danholme

Build-it-Yourself Software Management Infrastructure Article

Microsoft Press Online will be releasing an excerpt from the Windows Adminsitration Resource Kit entitled Build-it-Yourself Software Management Infrastructure . (The URL will be posted here when the article goes live.) The article refers to two tools...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 4:27 AM by danholme

My TechEd 2008 Sessions

I've been lucky enough to be selected to present four sessions and participate in a panel at TechEd this year. My sessions are listed below. PLEASE COME, particularly to the (very cool and new and different) sessions I'm delivering on Thursday...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2008 4:47 AM by danholme

Group Policy Preferences ROCK!

Those of you who follow my work know that one thing I've (fortunately or unfortunately) been doing a lot of over the years is major "User Data & Settings" efforts--getting user data & settings off of individual computers and onto...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 4:56 PM by danholme

Errata: Page 244

The .adm file shown on page 244 is incorrect. In the line starting with KEYNAME, you need to remove Policies\ from the beginning of the string. The line should read, instead: KEYNAME "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 4:38 PM by danholme

Filed under: Errata

UDS_UserFolders_Extended_Provision_DFS undocumented switch

The UDS_UserFolders_Extended_Provision_DFS.vbs script has a switch that is not listed in the usage instructions (/?). You can add /quiet:N to cause the script to output more verbose information, which is helpful if you are encountering errors. Note: an...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 4:35 PM by danholme

Filed under: User Data & Settings

User Data & Settings: New DFS recommendations

I'm currently implementing a hybrid DFS namespace solution that addresses all of the requirements without needing 9 links per user (which is a problem for WS2003 environments in which DFS has a 5000 link limit per namespace). The DFS namespace becomes...

Published Fri, Jun 06 2008 4:33 PM by danholme

Filed under: User Data & Settings

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