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Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)

ActiveX Killbits and Group Policy

Recently, Microsoft announced a zero-day vulnerability in IE's ActiveX video control, that required folks to react quickly to prevent exploits of this vulnerability. One of the possible routes for preventing this was to disable the affected ActiveX control in...

What’s Happening in the GP World???

Hey Folks. Sorry for the long delay in between postings. Lots going on in Group Policy land and in my own life that has been keeping me busy! But, now that I have some time, I wanted to blog about a few things of note, in no particular order:Thanks to Mike Kline for...

Going to MMS?

If you're planning on being at the Microsoft Management Summit next week, I'll be presenting a Group Policy Troubleshooting session there on Wednesday morning. Stop by and say hi or attend the session or the Birds of a Feather I'll be doing that evening at around...

GPMC Cmdlets Update

Just a quick shout-out to let folks know that I posted an update to our SDM Software GPMC Cmdlets on our freeware page. This is version 1.3 and primarily just fixes some bugs including an issue when you tried to get, add or remove site-based GPO links....

Automating GP Preferences

In a recent posting on the Activedir.org mailing list, I happened to mention that we're getting ready to release v. 2.0 of our GPExpert(r) Scripting Toolkit. The Toolkit is actually getting a new name, but I won't spoil the surprise for now. However, the key feature...

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