Along with scripting Windows Firewall exceptions, you can also control them through a Group Policy Object. This would give you the broad reach of being able to affect an entire Organizational Unit (OU) without having to add a script or additional code to a login script. In order to create a firewall exception for an application, Create or Edit a Group Policy Object for an … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
PHP Basics with WordPress and phpBB
With Wordpress 2.7 hitting the market for self-hosted Wordpress.org blogs, I've finally decided to make the jump. After reading some helpful tips regarding the 2.7 upgrade over at the Lorelle on Wordpress blog, I began making my own preparations for the upgrade and ran into a little more technical issue. Step 1 of the extended Upgrading Wordpress instructions states to … [Read more...]
NetSetMan – Manage your network connections
NetSetMan allows you to manage your network connections b profiles. In the free version, you get six profiles that you can set, which seem like it would be ideal for a laptop, where you might be switching networks frequently. Under each profile you can configure a ton of settings: IP address (DHCP or specified), DNS server, WINS server, computer name, domain, default printer, … [Read more...]