If we need to copy group members from one group to another, it could be done by using PowerShell 2.0 and ActiveDirectory module. Here are the commands:

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
Get-ADGroupMember Group1 | % {Add-ADGroupMember Group2 -Members $_}

Microsoft announced that enhanced Exchange Server Deployment Assistant now includes support for configuring rich coexistence (also known as “hybrid deployment”) for organizations interested in maintaining some users on-premises with Exchange 2010 and some users hosted in the cloud by Microsoft Office 365 for enterprises. This scenario is in addition to the existing support for configuring rich coexistence between on-premises Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 organizations and Office 365.

The new coexistence information for the Exchange 2010 environment is only available in English at this time and requires that your existing Exchange 2010 servers are updated to Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1).

Rich coexistence (“hybrid deployment”) offers organizations the ability to extend the feature-rich experience and administrative control they have with their existing on-premises Microsoft Exchange organization to the cloud. It provides the seamless look and feel of a single Exchange organization between an on-premises organization and a cloud-based organization. In addition, coexistence can serve as an intermediate step to moving completely to a cloud-based Exchange organization. This approach is different than the simple Exchange migration (aka cutover migration) and staged Exchange migration options currently offered by Office 365 outlined in Email Migration Overview in Exchange Online help.

Microsoft have just released a few more Group Policy related hotfixes’. Below is the description of each issue that it resolves and link to the related KB Article.

GetGPOList function does not return all GPOs in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2

Consider the following scenario:

• You have a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
• You use the LocalSystem account to run a service on the computer.
• The service calls the GetGPOList function to query all Group Policy objects (GPO) that are applied on a computer.
• The Authenticated Users group is removed from the access control list (ACL) in an applied GPO.

In this scenario, the GetGPOList function does not return all applied GPOs. The function returns only GPOs that have the Authenticated Usersgroup in the ACL of the GPO.

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Windows 7 Deployment: Everything (well almost everything) you wanted to know about Application Compatibility but were afraid to ask.

There are many questions and misunderstandings surrounding application compatibility. If you are not already conversant in application compatibility then join us for an overview of the types of questions customers are asking, and the straight-talk answers you can provide in return. This session won’t turn you into an application compatibility guru overnight, but it will make it easier for you to help so you can go about the business of keeping your customers happy and informed.

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Windows Thin PC has been released to manufacturing (RTM), and will be available for our SA customers to download starting July 1, 2011. Microsoft Windows Thin PC (WinTPC) enables customers to repurpose existing PCs as thin clients by providing a smaller footprint, locked-down version of Windows 7.