Bobby's IT Corner

Tips and Musings From a Healthcare IT Guy

International Password Reset Week

International Password Reset Week

Recently, a co-worker remarked on the number of passwords he had to reset during a weekend on-call quite humorously as ‘International Password Reset Weekend’. Shortly thereafter I received an email notifying me “World Password Reset Day” was coming, a glorious occasion to celebrate personal computing security by reminding people they need to reset their passwords. WhileRead more about International Password Reset Week[…]

Using Item Level Targeting to Clean Up Group Policy Loopback Processing

Using Item Level Targeting to Clean Up Group Policy Loopback Processing

You may be the luckiest system or network administrator in the world and you were brought into an environment which is put together exactly right. Or maybe you built your Active Directory/Windows network from scratch and all the features like Group Policy Printer Deployment work perfectly. For many of us though there are one orRead more about Using Item Level Targeting to Clean Up Group Policy Loopback Processing[…]

Microsoft “Saved Games” Folder, How I Despise Thee

Microsoft “Saved Games” Folder, How I Despise Thee

note: this is an article I originally published on Experts Exchange in June of 2015. Many of us in IT utilize User State Virtualization (roaming profiles and folder redirection) to ensure user information carries over from one workstation to another; in my environment, it was to enable virtualization without needing a separate desktop for each user.Read more about Microsoft “Saved Games” Folder, How I Despise Thee[…]