Archive for June, 2007
How to apply Group Policy Drive mappings in Vista without disabling the UAC
Jun 29th
I finally got around to trying to figure out what was a better way of implementing drive mappings without having to go around to each computer to disable the UAC in Vista. For most people using the computer in the office, this is a good thing as it usually helps prevent unwanted things from running and in the long run saving me time from having to do maintenance on it. When I last looked at trying to get Vista to run my GPO scripts that mounted the drives in my UNC, I had to disable the UAC before it would run them. Apparently this is because the scripts run at a higher privilege level during the login process, and because UAC is running at that time the scripts don’t get executed. Because of this it is necessary to run the scripts after the login process. The techcenter post from Microsoft is a bit cryptic at best and doesn’t cover mixed environments where you have XP and Vista machines running. So the best thing to do is to add in this script that I found on the Internet that is a modified version of Microsoft’s launchapp.wsf. Place this in your GPO’s scripts logon area. And then under the script path, enter in the location of your working XP script one at a time. Essentially this wsf script becomes a wrapper for your vbs code that will determine if the machine you are logging on to is a XP or Vista machine, and then execute the drive mapping script code appropriately. Below you can find the code to implement.
Note: Remember to be patient as when you implement the new GPOs it might take time to replicate over your system. Other things might affect the update such as DFS, network lag, etc. You can force the PC to update their GPO by running the command:
gpupdate /force
Script wrapper code:
Lost Airplane Crash Redone
Jun 17th
A pretty cool new video that takes all the events of the airplane crash on LOST from all three seasons. Take a look here and let me know what you think.
Windows Server 2008 ‘The Last 32-bit Operating System’
Jun 16th
Apparently Windows Server 2008 will be the last Microsoft server to support 32bit architecture. And thank goodness too. Hopefully this will finally force developers of software to start making more 64bit drivers and applications in general. I have tried both the Windows XP 64bit and Windows Vista 64bit only to wind up with grief because some application I used to use, or some piece of hardware (printers!) did not have the 64 bit driver. How annoying is that. And the best part of it was, that I read somewhere sorry don’t remember the link, but vendors said that Windows XP 64bit wasn’t “official” in their eyes and thus did not merit developing drivers for it. What lies… sigh. Anyways, you can read more about it here.
15 Geekiest Vacations
Jun 15th
From museums to an odyssey to bars and wars, there is everything here for the Geek (nerd?) in you to do when you want to go on a vacation. Unfortunately, the best thing that I could think of doing would be going to the beach but thats me. Probably closest to number 2. Anyways, take a look here its a fun read.
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