(Re)creating My Documents, My Computer and the Recycle Bin

Ever wondered how to recreate the My Documents, My Computer and the Recycle Bin shortcuts? PowerFuse has a lot of advantages compared to the ‘ole desktop that you probably never really considered what the impact on the end user could be if these aren’t there. Even though by default PowerFuse creates the My Computer and My Documents application shortcuts, on overly eager technical admin with a greyed out Del-key could delete these objects by accident.

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How to gracefully log off a PowerFuse session

Today, a very useful article appeared in my mailbox. It describes how to gracefully log off PowerFuse sessions using registry values.

For example, you can force sessions to log off based on their idle time, disconnect time or screensaver activity.

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Find those settings!

Here’s a cool item which may come in very handy. It’s an excel spreadsheet which contains all the Windows 2008 and Vista SP1+ policy entries. This is very helpfull when you’re trying to figure out which registry settings you want to implement in PowerFuse or Wisdom. The spreadsheet contains information on both Administrative Template settings and Security settings.

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RESug at PubForum 2009!

There’s only 13 days left before the next PubForum. Hurry and register now as there’s currently only 6 seats left. If you haven’t heard about PubForm yet don’t feel bad. It’s not a highly publicised event, rather it is a highly technical event – for geeks, by geeks! If you’re in certralized IT and have had it up to here with over-comercialized events, then PubForum is for you! Held bi-annually, this time held in beautiful Dublin, it’s my third time onboard. I can tell you from personal experience that it’s damn well worth it!

At PubForum, Yuri and I together with Steve Atkinson, are going to do the RES PowerFuse MasterClass where we will share cool stuff about what’s under the hood of the product, as well as valuable consulting experience from the field.

Have a look at the agenda for PubForum here

Seeya there!

Max

RES at Virtual Power 2009

Last week, on May 13-14th, RES Software participated in the Virtual Power 2009 event held in Lilleström, Norway. This event was hosted by the Norwegian RES distributor Commaxx and around +770 people showed up.  Bob Janssen (RES’s co-founder and CTO) and Max Ranzau (yours truely) together with Frode Kipperberg of RES Norway, did some presentations which I would like to share with you here. Read the rest of this entry »

New Wisdom BB – User Provisioning

A new Wisdom BuildingBlock has been shared for your enjoyment. This buildingblock was shown today at Virtual Power 2009 in Oslo. The BB contains a Wisdom RunBook, which will help you create new users in an Active Directory environment.

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