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World IPv6 Launch Solidifies Global Support for New Internet Protocol
Top websites, Internet service providers, and home networking equipment manufacturers commit to largest transition in the Internet’s history
[Washington, D.C., USA and Geneva, Switzerland] – 17 January 2012 – Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012.
Organized by the Internet Society, and building on the successful one-day World IPv6 Day event held on 8 June 2011, World IPv6 Launch represents a major milestone in the global deployment of IPv6. As the successor to the current Internet Protocol, IPv4, IPv6 is critical to the Internet’s continued growth as a platform for innovation and economic development.
“The fact that leading companies across several industries are making significant commitments to participate in World IPv6 Launch is yet another indication that IPv6 is no longer a lab experiment; it’s here and is an important next step in the Internet’s evolution,” commented Leslie Daigle, the Internet Society’s Chief Internet Technology Officer. “And, as there are more IPv6 services, it becomes increasingly important for companies to accelerate their own deployment plans.”
ISPs participating in World IPv6 Launch will enable IPv6 for enough users so that at least 1% of their wireline residential subscribers who visit participating websites will do so using IPv6 by 6 June 2012. These ISPs have committed that IPv6 will be available automatically as the normal course of business for a significant portion of their subscribers. Committed ISPs are:
● AT&T
● Comcast
● Free Telecom
● Internode
● KDDI
● Time Warner Cable
● XS4ALL
Participating home networking equipment manufacturers will enable IPv6 by default through the range of their home router products by 6 June 2012. Committed equipment manufacturers are:
● Cisco
● D-Link
Web companies participating in World IPv6 Launch will enable IPv6 on their main websites permanently beginning 6 June 2012. Inaugural participants are:
● Facebook (www.facebook.com)
● Google (www.google.com)
● Microsoft Bing (www.bing.com)
● Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com)
Content delivery network providers Akamai and Limelight will be enabling their customers to join this list of participating websites by enabling IPv6 throughout their infrastructure.
As IPv4 addresses become increasingly scarce, every segment of the industry must act quickly to accelerate full IPv6 adoption or risk increased costs and limited functionality online for Internet users everywhere. World IPv6 Launch participants are leading the way in this effort.
For more information about World IPv6 Launch, products, and services covered, as well as links to useful information for users and information about how other companies may participate, visit:
http://www.worldipv6launch.org
About the need for IPv6
IPv4 has approximately four billion IP addresses (the sequence of numbers assigned to each Internet-connected device). The explosion in the number of people, devices, and web services on the Internet means that IPv4 is running out of space. IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol which provides more than 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses, will connect the billions of people not connected today and will help ensure the Internet can continue its current growth rate indefinitely.
About the Internet Society
The Internet Society is the world’s trusted independent source of leadership for Internet policy, technology standards and future development. Based on its principled vision and substantial technological foundation, the Internet Society works with its members and Chapters around the world to promote the continued evolution and growth of the open Internet through dialog among companies, governments, and other organizations around the world. For more information, see: www.internetsociety.org
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Jeff Young
jyoung@akamai.com
AT&T
Jenny Bridges
jenny.bridges@fleishman.com
Cisco
Marc Musgrove
mmusgrov@cisco.com
Comcast
Jorge Alberni
jorge_alberni@comcast.com
D-Link
Denise Keddy
denise.keddy@dlink.com
Facebook
Nisha Gulati
ngulati@fb.com
Google Inc.
press@google.com
Internet Society
Wende Cover
cover@isoc.org
Internode
John Harris
jharris@impress.com.au
Limelight Networks
Heather Miller
media@llnw.com
Microsoft Bing
Bill Hankes
bhankes@microsoft.com
Time Warner Cable
Justin Venech
justin.venech@twcable.com
Yahoo!
Christina Scharrenberg
cscharr@yahoo-inc.com
Organized by the Internet Society, and building on the successful one-day World IPv6 Day event held on 8 June 2011, World IPv6 Launch represents a major milestone in the global deployment of IPv6. As the successor to the current Internet Protocol, IPv4, IPv6 is critical to the Internet’s continued growth as a platform for innovation and economic development.
Major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012.
Retrieve all groups in a domain or container that match the specified conditions.
Syntax
Get-QADGroup [[-Identity] IdentityParameter] [-GroupType GroupType]
[-GroupScope GroupScope] [-Tombstone] [-Dynamic] [-Empty]
ADProperties DateTimeOptions Membership Advanced_Options
[-SizeLimit Int32] [-LdapFilter String]
[-IncludeAllProperties] [-SerializeValues]
Key
-identity The Distinguished Name (DN), Canonical Name, GUID or, where applicable,
the Domain\Name, UPN or SID of the object you wish to find.
-GroupType 'Security' or 'Distribution'
-GroupScope 'Global' 'Universal' or 'DomainLocal'
-Empty Only retrieve groups that have no members.
ADProperties Retrieve objects that match one or more of the properties below:
[-Description String] [-Name String] [-DisplayName String]
[-SamAccountName String]
[-Anr String] (ambiguous name resolution)
DateTimeOptions
Only return items matching a date range:
[-CreatedOn DateTime] [-CreatedAfter DateTime] [-CreatedBefore DateTime]
[-LastChangedOn DateTime] [-LastChangedAfter DateTime] [-LastChangedBefore DateTime]
Membership
Only return items that belong (or don't belong) to given groups:
[-MemberOf IdentityParameter[]] [-IndirectMemberOf IdentityParameter[]]
[-NotMemberOf IdentityParameter[]] [-NotIndirectMemberOf IdentityParameter[]]
[-ContainsMember IdentityParameter[]] [-ContainsIndirectMember IdentityParameter[]]
[-NotContainsMember IdentityParameter[]] [-NotContainsIndirectMember IdentityParameter[]]
-SizeLimit Maximum number of items to be returned (default=1000)
-LdapFilter A case-sensitive LDAP search filter.
If an Identity value is supplied this parameter will be ignored.
-IncludeAllProperties
Retrieve all attributes of the computer object
-SerializeValues
Output the object properties as a string (serialized) this makes it easy to
export attribute values to a text file. When used with -IncludeAllProperties,
an entire object can be exported from AD into a text file.
-Tombstone Search for deleted objects. (see Restore-QADDeletedObject)
Advanced_Options:
[-LastKnownParent IdentityParameter] [-SecurityMask SecurityMasks]
[-SearchRoot IdentityParameter] [-SearchScope SearchScope]
[-AttributeScopeQuery String] [-PageSize Int32]
[-WildcardMode WildcardMode] [-ObjectAttributes Object] [-Anr String]
[-DontConvertValuesToFriendlyRepresentation] [-ReturnPropertyNamesOnly]
[-UseDefaultExcludedProperties] [-DontUseDefaultIncludedProperties]
[-UseDefaultExcludedPropertiesExcept String []] [-ExcludedProperties String[]]
[-IncludedProperties String[]] [-UseGlobalCatalog]
[-Proxy] [-Service String]
[-ConnectionAccount String] [-ConnectionPassword SecureString]
[-Credential PSCredential] [-Connection ArsConnection]
Notes:
By default Get-QADGroup will connect to any available domain controller with the credentials of the locally logged on user, to connect to a specific domain controller using a specific account, either use the advanced options (-Proxy/-Service/-ConnectionAccount) or use the Connect-QADService cmdlet to make the connection.
Examples
Display the description of the ‘SuperAdmins’ group in domain ss64Dom
PS C:>(get-QADGroup ‘ss64Dom\SuperAdmins’).DirectoryEntry.description
Using an LDAP search filter, display all the groups whose description starts with an ‘s’
PS C:> get-QADGroup -SearchRoot ‘ss64.com/sampleOU’ -LdapFilter ‘(description=s*)’
List all distribution groups in a specific OU container:
PS C:> get-QADGroup -SearchRoot ‘ss64.com/sampleOU’ -GroupType ‘Distribution’
Retrieve groups from a particular container that have the user usr1021 as a direct or indirect member:
PS C:> get-QADGroup -SearchRoot ‘<DN of container>’ -ContainsIndirectMember ‘ss64Dom\usr1021′
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While almost everyone in the Western world has at least one laptop or desktop in their household, it’s important to remember that a huge percentage of computing is done in an office and enterprise environment. The use-cases of home and office machines are understandably quite different — we play World of Warcraft at home, and fiddle with Word and Excel documents at work — and thus the hardware specifications are very different, too. It’s very rare to find an office machine that has more than a bare minimum of memory and processor power.
This hasn’t historically been a problem. Office machines have been equipped with wimpy CPUs and integrated graphics solutions, and companies have saved billions of dollars as a result. Unfortunately for enterprises, though, the world of computing is changing. Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock for the last 18 months, you will have noticed that all three major browser vendors have been racing to improve their JavaScript performance and HTML5 compliance. Along the way, hardware acceleration for 2D and 3D rendering was thrown into the mix. We’ve seen a veritable explosion in rich web apps as a result, and we’re now soundly plugging our way towards HTML5-based operating systems like Chrome OS and Windows 8.
The end result is a chain of technological innovations that is moving much, much faster than the 3- and 5-year upgrade cycles that plague most large businesses. Not only are there millions of office workers that are forced to surf and work on old, low-RAM, antique-CPU beige boxes, but more importantly they’re often forced into using ancient versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox that were released long before last year’s performance surge.
Enter Windows Thin PC, or WinTPC for short. WinTPC is the latest in the long line of Windows Embedded releases, but slightly retooled and re-branded to represent its new use-case: turning decrepit computers into thin clients. Windows Embedded Standard 7 (WES7), released last month, and Windows Thin PC, released this week, are both based on Windows 7. They look like Windows 7 (with the exception of Aero in the case of WinTPC, but more on that later), they have much the same enterprise feature set as Windows 7 (BitLocker, AppLocker, Direct Access), and most importantly they can be administered using the standard Windows backend of WSUS, Active Directory, Configuration Manager, Group Policies, and PowerShell.
The main difference is that WinTPC is a free download for anyone with a Microsoft Volume Licensing/Software Assurance license, while WES7 is only available as a pre-installed OS on thin clients from OEMs like HP.
Windows Thin PC
Windows Thin PC, in other words, is a fantastic way to revitalize Windows XP-era hardware with a fresh coat of Windows 7 paint. Additionally, WinTPC includes write filters, which provide granular control to the system hard drive, and a keyboard filter that can block various key combos. All in all, Windows Thin PC is a neat, cost-effective, and secure way of re-purposing old hardware.
But there’s more! You might have heard about RemoteFX, a new technology that debuted with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1. Basically, it allows Remote Desktop clients to use the graphics hardware on the remote server. You might be connecting from a netbook with the most awful of integrated graphics solutions, but if the remote server has a juicy graphics card, you can actually use RemoteFX to run 3D games inside a Remote Desktop connection.
More Tests Coming Soon !
In an interesting twist, Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 8 will feature the first-rate, enterprise-echelon Hyper-V machine virtualization hypervisor. This will mean that Windows 8 users will be able to run almost every other operating system inside a window, including Windows 7 and XP, SUSE and Red Hat Linux, and more (including Ubuntu) with a little hacking. Prior to Windows 8, Hyper-V was only available in Windows Server 2008 or as a standalone OS.
Now, at its most basic, this will just mean that you won’t have to download the free (and excellent) VirtualBox software if you want to virtualize a guest operating system — a very useful feature for power users and developers who want to try out different build and runtime environments, but not exactly a killer feature for consumers. Unless… what if Hyper-V comes with a copy of Windows 8 (or 7) guest OS pre-installed?
Just imagine this for a moment: you boot up into normal, running-as-root/administrator Windows 8. Once Windows 8 finishes loading, Hyper-V then boots up a virtualized instance of Windows 8 — so you have Windows 8, and another completely separate copy of Windows 8 running in a window. You can then do anything you like with the virtualized OS without affecting the main, host OS. At its most basic, you could use the in-a-window OS to safely surf lewd and/or malware-ridden websites — but you could also use it to open untrusted files, play around with system files, and so on. Virtualization is, in essence, the best security sandbox money can buy.
Furthermore, bundling a virtual machine manager with Windows 8 means that Microsoft can relax it’s truly heroic backwards-compatibility efforts. This isn’t to say that Windows 8 won’t run legacy, Windows XP-era software, but if it happens to be slightly glitchy… then just install XP under Hyper-V. Microsoft could also make this “compatibility layer” transparent: imagine opening an incompatible Windows XP program, but instead of being told it won’t run, Windows 8 automatically opens a virtualized instance of Windows XP, and then the program.
This is a simple script that mines some data from the app-v packages sprj file. If you have few hundred packages and are planning to upgrade your App-V infrastructure. Then it’s very useful to know what version is used to sequence packages and so on..
This script creates three reports. SEQUENCERVERSION.txt contains information about what sequencer version is being used, and PACKAGEAVAILIBLE.txt reports what .sft file is currently in use. Just input path to content folder or palce where virtual aplications are stored.
A new feature has also been added to find what programs have program dependencies and what they are. The results are saved in APPDEPENDENCIES.txt file
- #Script creates three reports. Sequencerversion.txt contains information about what
- #sequencer version is used for sequencing.
- #Packageavailible.txt reports what .sft file is currently in use. Just input path to
- #your content folder or palce where virtual aplications are stored.
- #the third file is Appdependency.txt which lists the application dependencies the script found
- # Win7trainer.wordpress.com 2011
- $path = Read-Host “Give path to content folder”
- $sequencer = get-childitem $path\*\*.sprj -recurse | Select-String -Pattern “SEQUENCERPROJECT Version” | Sort-Object Line
- $sequencer | Out-GridView
- $sequencer > sequencerversion.txt
- $package = get-childitem $path\*\*.sprj -recurse | Select-String -Pattern “PACKAGEFILE Path” | Sort-Object Line
- $package | Out-GridView
- $package > packageavailible.txt
- $DEPENDENCIES = get-childitem $path\*\*.osd -recurse | Select-String -Pattern “mandatory” | Sort-Object Line
- $DEPENDENCIES | Out-GridView
- $DEPENDENCIES > APPDEPENDENCIES.txt
- function Pause ($Message=”Press any key to continue…”)
- {
- Write-Host -NoNewLine $Message
- $null = $Host.UI.RawUI.ReadKey(”NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown”)
- Write-Host “”
- }
- pause
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Hey everyone..This is a cool Powershell script that will back up all group policies to one specific location. From this location you will notice the creation of another PS script that will allow you to import them into a new location. I have personally tested this on Server 2008R2 servers and it works like a charm. Remember you will need to edit it to specify your network settings. ENJOY.
Set-Strictmode -Version 2.0
Import-Module ActiveDirectory
Import-Module GroupPolicy
# Usage:powershell -executionPolicy Unrestricted -File TakeAllGPOs.ps1 >out.txt
$CurrentDomain = Get-ADDomain -current LocalComputer
$AllGPOs = Get-GPO -domain $CurrentDomain.DNSRoot -all
$BackupPath = "C:\Backup\GPO\"
If (!(Test-Path $BackupPath -pathtype container)){New-Item $BackupPath -type directory}
Foreach ($GPO in $AllGPOs)
{
$GPOBackup = Backup-GPO $GPO.DisplayName -path $BackupPath
[Console]::Error.WriteLine("Backing up: " + $GPO.DisplayName)
}
[Console]::Error.WriteLine([String]$AllGPOs.count + " GPOs were successfully backed up.")
$host.UI.WriteLine("Import-Module GroupPolicy")
Foreach ($GPO in $AllGPOs)
{
$Name = $GPO.DisplayName
$CmdLine = "Import-GPO -BackupGpoName `"$Name`" -TargetName `"$Name`" -CreateIfNeeded -Path $BackupPath"
$host.UI.WriteLine($CmdLine)
}
