Here's one that recently had me scratching my head. I was not confused by the technical complexity of the process but more that it had to be done at all. VMware provides a few Group Policy administrative templates to configure the settings of the View agent and other related components. Unfortunately, the templates are in the old Server 2003 .adm format and not in the modern … [Read more...]
Windows logs to help troubleshoot Group Policy
Troubleshooting Group Policy can be anything but straight-forward. You can double-check everything on the server side - settings, OU, security filtering - and come to the conclusion that things should work but still not get the desired results on the client. A previous article explains Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP) and GPResult to use in troubleshooting Group Policy but … [Read more...]
Reining in Java in your environment
In most enterprises, Java is a necessary evil. While most home users these days can get away with just uninstalling, in the corporate world there is still a need for Java. That means tolerating the security risks and update nags and Ask Toolbars and the generally ad hoc default settings. Or does it? Oracle provides Java Deployment Documentation with instructions for using a … [Read more...]
Microsoft changes advanced notifications for Windows Updates
In a Microsoft Security Response Center blog post yesterday, Microsoft wrote about "evolving" Microsoft's Advance Notification Service. In the article, it is explained that Microsoft will no longer be providing the Advanced Notifications in general. We are making changes to how we distribute ANS to customers. Moving forward, we will provide ANS information directly to Premier … [Read more...]
Microsoft releases KB3024777 to uninstall KB3004394 on Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2
Following Patch Tuesday this week, Microsoft pulled two updates that were causing problems. KB3011970 which addresses Silverlight and KB3004394 which addresses Windows Root certificates were both pulled after causing a variety of issues on Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 computers. Given the issues reported in Microsoft support forums and elsewhere following KB3004394 caused … [Read more...]