Month: February 2010
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Fine Grained Password Policy in WS2008; Virtualising Servers in Hyper-V; Windows 7 WAIK; Integris on Windows 7
Before Windows Server 2008 your Windows domain could only have one password policy for the whole domain, even though the password policy settings appear in any GPO. Only the settings in the Default Domain policy would be actually applied. One of the advances of Windows Server 2008 is to allow multiple password policies to be…
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Windows 7 now available in MOE schools deal
Since the Windows 7 RC came out we have run it in a variety of systems. While it is good, it is not the gold release version of Windows 7 and has a few bugs. And from March 1, it will start to shut down every two hours on PCs where it is still installed.…
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Nasty crashes in Word (probably all MS Office) if the user’s Documents folder cannot be found
Note that this could happen if the folder exists but the permissions are set such that the folder is inaccessible to some degree. Experience has taught me that Office suite programs are pretty poor at handling permission restrictions like a user has only Read and Execute rights on a folder. This latest problem with Word…