Active Directory Group Policy Programming/Registry Reference
Group Policy Program/Registry Reference for Administrative Templates
All policies are listed alphabetically by: policy node, policy path, symbolic policy name and policy name.
For policy node:
- Computer Configuration / Administrative Templates policies are listed under COMPUTER.
- User Configuration / Administrative Templates policies are listed under USER.
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Introducing Windows 7 for Developers
Excitement and anticipation followed me everywhere at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in October 2008. New technologies were being announced at every corner; you couldn”t find your way from one session to another without seeing another lab, another ad, another brochure on yet another Microsoft technology. And yet the most exciting of all, for me, was the unveiling of Windows 7, the new operating system from Microsoft. With eyes glued to the screen, thousands of attendees waited as Steven Sinofsky showed us around the M3 (6801) build of Windows 7.
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Real’s Howto WSH VBScript
These How-to’s are about the usage of VBScript used with the Window Scripting Host (WSH). WSH enables scripts to be executed directly on the Windows desktop or command console, without the need to embed those scripts in an HTML document. Scripts can be run directly from the desktop simply by clicking on a script file ( .vbs for VBScript), or from the command console. The WSHost is included with all recent Windows versions or it can be freely downloaded from Microsoft or here
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Understanding the Windows Scripting Host
One of Windows’s most notable deficiencies when compared with other operating systems is its lack of a batch language for automating tasks. Although the underlying MS-DOS supports batch files, they are of little use in the Windows environment: under Windows 3.1 you can’t even launch Windows programs from batch files. Support staff wishing to automate tasks for their users have been forced to use third-party tools like Wilson WinBatch or JP Software’s Take Command. Because these tools are not part of Windows, they must be separately installed before they can be used. Licensing of these toolsmeans that additional costs are often incurred, which, if the budget is not available, becomes a problem.
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Adobe InDesign CS3 Scripting Guide VBScript
This document shows how to do the following:
.Work with the Adobe® InDesign® scripting environment.
.Use advanced scripting features.
.Perform basic document tasks like setting up master spreads, printing, and exporting.
.Work with text and type in an InDesign document, including finding and changing text.
.Create dialog boxes and other user-interface items.
.Customize and add menus and create menu actions.
.Respond to user-interface events.
.Work with XML, from creating XML elements and importing XML to adding XML elements to a layout.
.Apply XML rules, a new scripting feature that makes working with XML in InDesign faster and easier.
We assume you already read Adobe InDesign CS3 Scripting Tutorial and know how to create, install, and run scripts.
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