Microsoft Monday moved to improve its portfolio of management tools by acquiring DesktopStandard, which develops software that uses group policy for managing computers. DesktopStandard develops a ...

NetPro last week bolstered its security and compliance suite for Microsoft’s Active Directory with software that lets users delegate who can set and change policies used to manage desktops and servers ...

Microsoft has bolstered its group-policy desktop management offering with the acquisition of New Hampshire software vendor DesktopStandard. Under the terms of the cash deal, Microsoft is acquiring the ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Group Policy was introduced in Windows 2000 Server and was a great boon to administrator productivity. While Group Policy was enhanced and extended in Windows Server 2003, there were not many ...