Archive for June, 2007

How slow link detection works

Many organizations have parts of their business and remote offices connected via VPN over some sort of internet connection. Other organizations provide their staff possibilities to connect via a VPN tunnel to the corpnet. Just like the authentication inside the corpnet, people from outside need to authenticate with the domain controllers inside in order to […]

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Windows Firewall Network Determination

[ - or: How does Windows Firewall know which profile to load? ]
As I read this one in the Microsoft Newsgroups, I was a little astonished. I never asked myself this question.
Of course I knew that Windows Firewall has two profiles which can be configured: Domain profile (for times when the machine resides in the […]

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How can I export local Group Policy settings made in gpedit.msc?

Mark Heitbrink, MVP for Group Policy came up with a good solution on how you can “export” the Group Policy and Security settings you made in on a machine with the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) to other machines pretty easy:
Normal settings can be copied like this:
1.) Open %systemroot%\system32\grouppolicy\
Within this folder, there are two folders - “machine” […]

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