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In some ways, what you're trying to do is impossible. Since - to avoid a dangerous window of vulnerability - most distros bring up the firewall rules before they bring up the network interfaces, it's prima facie impossible to get the firewall rules over the network at boot time.
Once you accept that, you've redefined the problem as "how do I centrally ...
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It pretty much tells you what you have to do:
You must grant access for the Web application in the Team Foundation Administration Console
The Search Service is simply a search indexer and provider and has nothing to do with TFS.
Here is the relevant page on MSDN for how to grant access to the Web app:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd236907
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Not exactly, but you can deploy Adobe Reader and Flash player with Group Policy Objects. I do it, and it's very effective in getting these products updated swiftly (if your users are anything like mine, they won't press the big flashy message telling them to update).
Check out the pages on Adobe's website about deploying Adobe Reader and Flash Player via ...
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Computer -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update
Allow non-administrators to receive update notifications
This group policy setting controls whether users need admin rights to install updates. If you lack GPO control over the systems, then use the equivalent registry hack:
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The "proper" way to do it is to use the SharePoint Management Shell cmdlet:
Set-SPCentralAdministration -Port <NewPortNumber>
In your particular case though, this wouldn't work. Set-SPCentralAdministration doesn't allow you to use a port below 1023 - you would need to fall back on the stsadm.exe operation setadminport:
stsadm.exe -o setadminport ...
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Typically this would be achieved by group policies for the machines in question. However none such policy exists as overriding screen resolution remotely is typically Not a Good Idea (TM).
Instead you should configure the screen resolutions manually, although the best resolution should be selected by Windows automatically when you install the appropriate ...
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You could set a Startup script for all your users in your AD (under their Profile tab in the Logon script field) and have that call a tool like QRes to set their resolution. A simple batch file would do the trick, like
C:\ServerScripts\QRes.exe /x:1280 /y:1024
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Generally, a system like Chef or Puppet is the ideal/modern way to perform configuration management. Your various manifests/recipes/etc can be placed into a version control system like Git to manage changes to the configuration itself.
As an aside, if you also have Windows servers, Chef and Puppet can be used with Windows, although they are more commonly ...
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