Writing by Brent Rockwood
QGPM uses programmatic interfaces exposed by GPMC for various functions, including backup/restore and reporting on GPO settings. Primarily, these features are implemented in the QGPM service, but GPMC is also used on the client if you try to export a GPO from the live environment.
With SP1, Microsoft is removing GPMC from Vista. For the majority [...]
I was debugging a customer issue in QGPM today and came across the strangest problem. Part of the issue involved using a service account with minimum permissions, so I duly followed the steps to set this up. This is something I should do more of, as you will soon see.
Once I finished setting up [...]
Back in the old days, it was extremely common to buy software that just had a plain old version number. You know, "Windows 3.1", "WordPerfect 5", etc. If you got your hands on a beta copy of a piece of software it meant you were usually a highly-valued customer, a paid tester, or your brother-in-law [...]
On my product team we have been using the SCRUM methodology of software development for a while. For those of you not familiar with it, here is the oversimplified version…
Get a big list of all the things you want to do, prioritized by our customers (in our case by proxy via our product manager)
Estimate how many [...]
One of the other tracks I have been following at CanHEIT is on identity management. At Quest we care about this quite a bit. Our customers have obvious concerns about security and compliance, as well as significant costs associated with customer, employee, and partner identity.
It probably shouldn’t have surprised me that our institutions of higher [...]
I went to see Tim Bray talk at CanHEIT this morning. I really enjoyed the talk, though I missed the first two or three minutes as he seems to have started fifteen minutes before his scheduled time. I’ve never had a chance to see him speak before and I was not disappointed. I’ll try to [...]
I will be attending the Canadian Higher Education and Information Technology conference at the University of Waterloo at the end of the month. I’m very interested to learn more about the challenges faced by universities and public institutions in general around the issues of governance and regulatory compliance, configuration management, and identity management. The smart [...]
From the Facebook help…
When we created the poke, we thought it would be cool to have a feature without any specific purpose.
Seriously.
I just finished reading an article on copyright by the always insightful Dare Obasanjo. I have many friends in the film and music businesses and I often end up trying to explain my thoughts on the issue. Here’s what I think…
I guess I have two issues, not with copyright per se (I am a software [...]
I’ve been reading the fantastic future perfect blog this morning and it’s got me thinking about my mobile essentials — i.e. the things I absolutely must have on my person when I leave home. Most of the time these include keys, cash, wallet (credit/debit, id, business cards), USB key, and my cellphone. Sometimes it includes my [...]
