Microsoft have posted a KB article to manually create ADM and ADMX files which will allow you to manage the search providers in Internet Explorer 7′s Search Box. This can be very useful for admins who only want certain sites to be searchable across their domain (such as an intranet!)

After when deploying Internet Explorer 7 around your site through a service such as WSUS, there are immediate considertaions that have to be dealt with. The main one being configuring settings for IE7. It is possible to download the Internet Explorer Administration Toolkit (IEAK), but when dealing with IE7 that has been installed on computers [...]

The typical situation is that Group Policy fails to load when logging on or starting up. This can cause a lot of grief, and I usually find that this registry key does the trick.

Deploying Java across a network was a little touch-and-go today. I had a point where Windows XP hung during the Installing Managed Software phase. After waiting for about 20 minutes, I decided that the installation had failed. After removing the package from software deployment section of Group Policy, I rebooted the PC and ran the [...]

I noticed that some files were disappearing on one of the Servers the other day. A few people had noticed. And it finally happened to me. I was roaming through my ‘My Documents’ folder when I noticed that folders that shouldn’t be empty were. Checking out the KnowledgeBase, I discovered that if your profile folder [...]