Going from Office 2007 to 2010 and need to import the NK2 file?

When moving from a PC with Office 2007 to a machine with Office 2010 you will need to import your nk2 file. To do this, first configure Outlook 2010 on the new machine, then copy the old NK2 file to the appropriate location:
Vista/7 c:\users\USERNAME\appdata\roaming\microsoft\outlook
XP c:\documents and settings\USERNAME\application data\microsoft\outlook

Then start outlook with the following command: outlook.exe /importnk2

Once Outlook opens you will notice there is a "suggested contacts" spot under contacts, this is where the NK2 information is imported.

Remove default home page of company web in SBS2008

By default Windows SBS 2008 sets all domain PC's IE home page to companyweb. To stop this edit the "Windows SBS User Policy" to change the Import URLs section.
User Config-Windows Settings-IE Maint.-URLs and uncheck Customize Home page URL.

Remotely remove symantec AV

Need to remove that horrible Symantec antivirus program from several pc's and want to do it remotely and silently. There is some leg work involved. You will need to find the uninstall string from the registry. Look for it here: HKLM>Software>Microsoft>Windows>Current Version>Uninstall. You will need to go through each string until you find the symantec string and look for the uninstall value. Next get PsExec on the server. Lastly run the command like this:
psexec file://pcname/ msiexec.exe /norestart /q /x {product uninstall string} remove=all

Run that and after a few minutes it will remove symantec for you. You may need to reset the unistall password if the software was deployed with it. To do that find the registry key under HKLM>Software>Symantec>Symantec End Point Protection>AV>AdministratorOnly>Security and look for UseVPUninstallPassword and set it to zero (0).

Edit the default recipient policy to change email addresses

So your user account is first initial lastname but you want the email address to be just the first name, ok.

Open ESM- Recipients-Recipient Policies and edit the default policy. Then under E-Mail Addresses (policy) edit the SMTP address to be:
%g@domain.com for it to be firstname@domain.com
%g.%s@domain.com for firstname.lastname@domain.com
%1g%s@domain.com for first initiallastname@domain.com
You can create multiple addresses at the same time as well by clicking new.

Give users a bogus proxy server and remove the ability to change it

Create a group policy called No Internet or something along those lines. Create a security group and put the users that are not going to use the internet in that group.
Edit the rights of the policy so authenticated users don't have a check in the box to apply the policy but add your new group to the policy and make them apply the policy. Next edit the policy:
User Configuration:
Policies-Windows Settings-IE Maint-Connection Proxy settings and give it a bogus IP address.
Admin Template-Windows Components-Internet Explorer-IE Control Panel and Disable Connections page.

This will prevent users from getting out on the internet and prevent them from turning off the proxy settings.

Disable Windows Firewall and turn off Security Center Alerts

To turn off the windows firewall on domain pc's through gpo open group policy editor and navigate to:

Computer Configuration-Admin Templates-Network Connections-Windows Firewall-Standard Profile and select Windows Firewall: Protect all network connections and set it to disabled, do this for the domain policy as well.

Second your will need to turn off security center to stop the balloon popups.
Computer Config-Admin Templates-Windows Components and select Security Center in the right pane. Select Disabled to turn off the security center.

Disable Simple file Sharing through registry or GPO

Need to turn off the simple file sharing of an XP machine through remote registry or GPO?

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\LSA\ForceGuest

Change it from 1 (enabled) to 0.

For GPO navigate to:
Computer Policy-Windows Settings-Security Settings-Local Policies-Security Options and locate Network Access: Sharing and Security Model for Local Accounts and set it to Classic.