Monday, December 11, 2006

AD & Vista Group Policies

I've been troubleshooting some AD group policies, and came across this guy's website which has some excellent links, including a hotfix that I need to deploy.

GPOGUY.COM--The Windows Group Policy Information Hub!

I also thought the "ADMX Migrator" tool from Microsoft sounds interesting. Will have to download and have a play. I haven't done anything with the new Group Policies in Vista, so this site could be a good reference.

Monday, December 04, 2006

Vista RTM and Audio issues

Well I finally got Vista RTM on my Toshiba M400 last week (Office 2007 too - very nice). It works really well, total eye candy, even if it is missing some functionality due to lack of driver support. The basic functions are supported well by the native Microsoft drivers.

The major issue I had was with Audio,and it took me days to work it out. Even though Vista (and the Toshiba drivers) both installed correctly and recognised the audio device I couldnt get any sound out. I found out that it was due to the software mute that I had on while running XP Tablet Edition. Pressing Fn+Esc in XP (with the Toshiba driver support) mutes the Audio device. As Vista obviously can't access this function of the tablet without vendor drivers it musn't have realised that the audio was muted. Luckily I still have my XP install on another hard disk, so by going back to the old OS, pressing Fn+Esc again, shutting down and booting Vista I now have sound again!

I found another person with similar experiences here:
Incremental Blogger: Installing Vista RTM on Toshiba M400

Update: I've just found Toshiba created a utility to specifically address this problem!
Sound Utility to Turn Mute Off After Upgrading to Vista (v1.0 r2; 02-12-2007; 1.07M)