Vista’s UAC prevents standard users from installing printer drivers by default. This can cause a problem, especially if you use a logon script or group policy preferences to add shared printers to the user profile.

Luckily there’s a quick group policy fix that will allow users to add printers without any prompt. Once configured, you should be able to log on with a user account that automatically adds the printer without a hitch.

Notepad++ is a very handy tool. It rocks.
What is annoying is that if you have it installed on a server, then you have to run NPP before opening the intended file that you want to edit.
Well, no more! Using the power of Group Policy Preferences (which also rocks).
First of all, install NPP onto your server [...]

I’ve had a problem lately whereby various roaming profiles have the Computer window appear when users log into Windows Vista.
I messed around with a load of settings to try and work out what it was – I thought that as the problem only manifests itself in Vista with the new profiles, maybe it’s mis-interpreting a [...]

One of the tricky things about managing Favourites for users on a network is that it’s a nightmare to easily deal with the varied requirements of users.
Generally, you would set up favourites on a Windows network to do one of the following:

Leave them as they are. Users can add and remove their own favourite websites
Redirect [...]

Now that MS Office 2007 is doing the rounds, I suppose it’s time to lookat some of its shortcomings.
It has a few when it comes to deployment. The biggest nuisance being deployment.
You have four options:

Install it on a PC manually (not great)
Deploy through group policy with no customisations
Use a deployment system such as SMS
Use a [...]

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!)