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Allow normal/domain users to add network printers in Windows 7

Windows needs to download and install a software driver from the \\<servername> computer print to <printer-name>. Proceed only if you trust the \\<servername> compuer and the network. You might see above message with “UAC” prompt to install drivers while adding network printers from a windows 7 computer. This behavior is expected as normal users are not [...]

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Now you can search for GPO settings easily

German AD team has announced a sweet online tool(http://gps.cloudapp.net/default.aspx) which helps windows administrators in easily locating their GPO settings. It’s pretty useful tool in case if you want to refer a setting, regkey, path, description of a particular GPO to a friend or forum member. I like it for two major reasons… 1) The easy [...]

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Note the change in Group Policies start/logon scripts behavior in Windows 7

I recently read a article in Microsoft DS blog about the change in the way GPOs processes startup/logon scripts in Windows 7 and Windows 2008. The thing here is that, till XP/2003 days, computer startup/user logon scrips used to get executed in synchronous manner. That means, if you have more than a script configured in [...]

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