Okay� so� todays posts isn�t something big and all rewamping of how you should do your daily tasks however it�s a small piece of advice on how to get business running again should you encounter a specific situation.

Imagine the following case; You and your collegaues around different departments have been hard at work making the entire setup for your new customer.Servers has been in-sourced, client computers has been changed to meet new standards and a new Windows 7 image has been created with some of their business critical applications directly integrated while SCCM is configured to take care of the rest of the deployment once the right users logs in for the first time.Your colleagues in the Remote Desktop Services department has even setup 50 new RDS servers in a special Home Workspace setup. Everything is tested and has been found to work beautifully.

Monday comes and the customer starts working on the new system but just as they fire up one of their business critical applications it crashes � for all of the users.

You discover that this is all due to incorrect NTFS permissions on the applications folder. The application is, sadly, installed directly in the image for all the client computers and even on the RDS servers.

Of course the image and the RDS servers setup needs to be corrected and repacked but this won�t solve the current incident for all teh users right now.

You could of course create a script and / or use cacls.exe to set the right permissions on the folder BUT let me show another neat trick you can do with Group Policy Objects directly through GUI.

Here�s a Step By Step guide to how you can do this.

1. Go to Start >�Search Programs and files�.

2. Type GPMC.msc and hit enter.

Please see Figure 1 for an image corresponding to the above steps.