by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 13, 2015 | Security-related
Earlier this week, Microsoft released a couple of patches that addressed vulnerabilities in our good friend Group Policy. First, I will say that it’s relatively rare to see such vulnerabilities directly effect Group Policy function, like this one does....
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 23, 2015 | Tips & Tricks
Just the other day I was talking to a customer about Group Policy loopback. If you’ll recall, loopback is that feature in Group Policy processing that allows you to override a user’s *normal* user policy settings when they log into specific...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 2, 2014 | Windows 10
Recently I’ve been testing Windows 10 Preview Enterprise. It’s always good to see how new features in new versions of Windows will behave in a typical enterprise environment. One feature that carries forward from Windows 8.x into Windows 10 is the Start...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 7, 2014 | Folder Redirection
There’s no question that traditional file services (e.g. Windows file servers, NAS filers, etc.) are slowly being usurped in the enterprise, by cloud storage vendors such as Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox and Citrix Sharefile. And while some...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 13, 2014 | Desired State Configuration
For those of you who read my blog, you’ll know that I am a big fan of the Desired State Configuration feature Microsoft introduced in PowerShell v4. For more information, you can see my early walkthrough of DSC and a comparison of Group Policy vs. DSC. And while...
