Assigning software through Group Policy is traditionally thought of as a pretty simple and inexpensive way of automating the deployment of software to entire groups of computers. These groups are defined in the Active Directory (AD) and are more accurately called an Organizational Unit (OU). While it does not require the purchase of any additional software, there are a few … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2008
Windows Installer Wrapper Wizard and a Better Firefox 3 Enterprise Deployment
Building off of the previous successful article, Make a .msi from Firefox 3 setup.exe for Enterprise Deployment, I have come up with an even better way to deploy Mozilla Firefox 3 via Group Policy and .msi installation. This article will provide a step-by-step guide to accomplish this, tested and proven working with Firefox 3.0.4. Whereas the previous article allowed Firefox … [Read more...]
Simple Tip: How to Rename Your Computer
It is best practice to name your computer something descriptive and unique. If the name is not unique amongst the computers on its network, you will get a NetBIOS Naming error and likely will not be able to connect to network resources from either machine. In order to rename your computer, you need to go to the System Properties. To get there, either right-click on My Computer … [Read more...]
Steganography
Steganography is a cool thing to be aware of, it's not life-changing but it's fun and interesting. Steganography broadly means hiding a message inside another object so nobody else even realizes that there is a hidden message, let alone one that they can't decipher. Particularly, for the purpose of this article, I am talking about hiding messages inside other digital objects … [Read more...]
Improving Vista
There are two legitimate complaints that I hear frequently regarding Vista. I say legitimate because I think a lot of people have bought into the herd mentality that Vista is bad without ever: A) Trying it out for themselves B) Giving it a shot for a decent length of time C) Recalling how bad Windows XP was at first (Wireless networking wasn't even reliable or mainstream usable … [Read more...]