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Convergence Conference 2007

We hope you enjoy the Convergence Conference in San Diego, CA. We will not be aggregating posts to this site this year.

How to block the installation of USB devices by using Group Policies?

Arlindo Alves writes "Today I was working at a booth on a Partner Event. I was explaining how we can block the installation of USB devices by using Group Policies. I also showed how we can change the default message a user gets when he try to install such a device. I talked about the fact that we can allow the installation of specific devices like mouse and keyboards. Now one of the customers had a question about can I allow only this specific USB Memory stick. I never thought about it before. So I wanted to find out if you can do that. So I have two identical memory sticks "USB Mini Cruzers" and I want to be able to use one of them and block the other. How does it work? First...."

Convergence Conference 2006

While the physical Convergence Conference 2006 is over and now recorded for posterity, you can still use this site because there are great post-conference resources here! Did you know you can search the Tracks on convergencebloggers.net to find all the posts on conference related topics? If you did attend Convergence 2006, I’m sure you’ll agree with me that it was great! Make sure you check out the following resources now available on the conference event site, check out: Convergence 101 The Fabulous Matt G navigates Convergence with a full video. Missed some of the sessions? No worries – Matt covers some of the session segments. The aggregation of blog posts has now ended for Convergence 2006. Thank you for joining the community! We hope you have a great year and be sure to make plans to attend Convergence 2007 in San Diego, California, March 11-14, 2007.

Doug Burgum's "Wisdom of Crowds"

Soni writes " In his keynote Doug did an awesome job of explaining how we as a company are embracing community and really focusing on making the atmosphere of Convergence available to customers 365 days a year online. He referenced some great points from the Wisdom of the Crowds book. One was particularily interesting. We all know about the Who Wants to be a Millionaire show. A study was done on the accuracy of different lifelines...specific call a friend/expert and ask the audience. When the person called their "expert" they were right 61% of the time. When they asked the audience -- a larger more diverse crowd -- they were right 91% of the time. Very effective, simple example of "wisdom of crowds." "

Convergence Conference 2006

While the physical Convergence Conference 2006 is over and now recorded for posterity, you can still use this site because there are great post-conference resources here! Did you know you can search the Tracks on convergencebloggers.net to find all the posts on conference related topics? If you did attend Convergence 2006, I’m sure you’ll agree with me that it was great! Make sure you check out the following resources now available on the conference event site, check out: Convergence 101 The Fabulous Matt G navigates Convergence with a full video. Missed some of the sessions? No worries – Matt covers some of the session segments. The aggregation of blog posts has now ended for Convergence 2006. Thank you for joining the community! We hope you have a great year and be sure to make plans to attend Convergence 2007 in San Diego, California, March 11-14, 2007.

Welcome to Convergence Bloggers!

We thought it would be cool to have a place to connect bloggers interested in Convergence 2006 whether or not they are attending the event in Dallas. The Convergence Bloggers website provides the following:

• Blogger Directory
• Topic RSS Feeds
• Session RSS Feeds
• More to come!

Over the next few days, we'll be posting more information about the Convergence Bloggers website and feed. We invite you to register your blog!