Microsoft Productions–Productivity Future Vision

From now and than, Microsoft launches some very interesting videos about they’re vision about the future.
It’s like a glimpse ahead of how Microsoft sees us (and by the way they’re business) in a not so far distance in what concerns to health, education, energy, work and…every other technology that surrounds us.

This futuristic videos may also show us a glimpse of future products and services that Microsoft may launch next.

The below video about Microsoft’s Vision for Productivity, it’s from 2009 and show us some interesting things, specially about how touch technology and the “mobile first” mantra was a 2009 Microsoft’s vision and how for example Surface devices are the implemation, in real world, of that vision.

GPOs - Disabling BitLocker Service Fails via Group Policy Preferences [Solved]

Today I've came across a strange issue when trying to disable "BitLocker Drive Encryption Service" with Group Policy Preferences (GPP).

Thanks to Helge Klein - Tools for IT Pros website this was really quick to solve!

After some reading, it seems it's related with the service permissions. This can be proven if you navigate to event viewer and you'll see a warning in application event log with an "Access Denied" for the Group Policy Services source.

"Googling" a little more about this, I've found out a way to solve this one.

So, follow theses steps:

1. First of all, download SetAcl from here
2. Now run following from the command-line (elevated)
   SetACL -on BDESVC -ot srv -actn ace -ace n:Administrators;p:full

And...it's all done! Now just execute "gpupdate /force" or reboot and then BitLocker Drive Encryption Service will be in "Disabled" state.

BlackViper.com - Known your OS services

Although this website exists for ages, and being known by the deployment and tweaking community for a long time, today, I'd like to show here a very nice resource for everything related with Windows services.

Created and maintained by Charles "Black Viper" Spark, BlackViper.com it's an extensive and comprehensive guide of Windows Services from Windows XP to Windows 10.
It's like having a library listing all possible services with information like, Display Name; Service Name; Default Status; etc.

Black Viper also gives information about the best values for tweaking; which ones are safe values, etc.

There are also some guides for tweaking which are a very nice source of information for that people trying to get best score for benchmarking software.

For me, this website it's mainly used to very very quickly get the service names i'm looking for. All in just one place.


Hope you enjoy it! ;)