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January 2, 2007 Leave a comment
It seems like Microsoft listen to feedback, because they decided to release a migration tool to convert your old custom Group Policy ADM files to the new ADMX format after all.
The ADMX migrator will enable you to take advantage of the new format so you can keep the file in a single central store rather than separate copies per GPO, and use ADML files to provide local language variants for your administrators.
January 1, 2007 2 Comments
Support for SUS v.1.0 ended on 6th December 2006
After this date it is no longer be supported, but more importantly it will no longer be able to download or distribute any new updates.
So, if you are still running “old” SUS you need to make the move to WSUS as soon as possible. While there is no ‘upgrade’ as such, you can migrate all your approvals and updates across. Read more of this post
January 1, 2007 3 Comments
DSMOD foundation course 101
I originally wrote this as an email reply to a colleague’s question about updating many Active Directory objects in one go, and later thought I could write it up “tutorial style”. I still think the DSQuery, DSGet, DSMod functions are underused by even fairly knowledgeable administrators, so here is a beginner’s guide to getting the most of these tools.
This is intended to show the principles for changing many AD objects’ properties in one go. There are lots more clever things you could do with this – like a lot of command line stuff, the principles are very simple but can be strung together to very powerful end results with a bit of thought and a step-by-step logical approach.
Basically, DSMOD allows you to change many (not all) of the AD properties of an object, usually a user, computer or group. This tutorial discusses users specifically, but the principles extend to other objects. Read more of this post
