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Just a quick note to let folks know that we’ve recently added a new Services offering to our extensive offering of Group Policy Management capabilities. So if you are looking at optimizing, consolidating or migrating your Group Policy environment, or need help with a new Group Policy design, we not only provide the products that can help you, but also the services that can do everything from…

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This coming Thursday night, May 9th, I’ll be interviewed live on the PowerScripting Podcast, hosted by PowerShell gurus Hal Rottenberg and Jonathan Walz. Tune in at 9:30PM Eastern Daylight Time to catch the live show, or catch the recorded version after the fact. It’s been 5 years since I was on this podcast so I’m looking forward to talking PowerShell, Group Policy and whatever else comes up!

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I’m happy to announce that SDM Software will be exhibiting for the first time at TechEd North America, this coming June 3rd through the 6th in New Orleans! It should be easy to find us as we are going to be in Booth #2222! So if you are thinking about going to TechEd or are already planning to be there, please stop by and say hi. I’ll be there and I’ll be joined in our booth by…

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Don’t forget to register for our upcoming Group Policy design webinar this Wednesday, January 30th, at 9am Pacific Time (GMT-8). Details at the link below, but here is a quick synopsis:

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Optimizing Group Policy Design and Performance with SDM Software
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In this Webinar, Group Policy MVP Derek Melber and MVP and CTO & Founder of SDM Software, Darren Mar-Elia will provid…

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Today I’m happy to announce that SDM Software has released our 2.0 version of GPO Exporter! I’m really excited about this release because I think it represents a new milestone in an organization’s ability to get insight and add manageability to Group Policy as a configuration management tool for Windows. As I had blogged previously, there’s a bunch of cool stuff we’ve included in this new…

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I’m happy to announce that on January 30th at 9am Pacific Time (GMT-8), SDM Software will be presenting a webinar entitled, “Optimizing Group Policy Design and Performance with SDM Software”. In this webinar, fellow Group Policy MVP Derek Melber and myself will be talking about best practices for Group Policy design to ensure good desktop performance and security. In this webinar, Derek w…

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Just a quick note to let folks know that the interview I gave with TechNet Radio about the changes for Group Policy in Server 2012/Windows 8 is up now at:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/TechNet+Radio/TechNet-Radio-STB-News-Bytes-Whats-New-for-Group-Policy-in-Windows-Server-2012

In the interview, I talk to Microsoft Director Karen Forster about all manner of Group Policy related topics,…

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Well, I don’t know about anyone else, but I am hard pressed to understand how another year has come and gone. Here at SDM, we have been non-stop busy delivering awesome new Group Policy Management Tools to you, our customers. 2012 marked another banner year for us, where we substantially increased both our customer base and revenues over the previous year, including several new high-prof…

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If you’ve followed my blog postings and articles recently,  you know that I’ve been speaking and writing on decisions that you can make in your Group Policy design that impact GP processing performance, and often, perceived desktop performance by the end user. Group Policy has some subtle and not-so-subtle features–such as Client Side Extensions that force synchronous processing, or GP…

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Here at SDM Software, we’re all about Group Policy, and enabling our customers to get more out of this great technology. To that end, we’re starting a weekly webinar series where you can listen to me talk about and demo our GPO Reporting Pak products–composed of GPO Compare and GPO Exporter– and talk about all the interesting Group Policy reporting, consolidation and optimization scenarios that…

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