Just a quick note to share a great site that I stumbled upon today (not sure how I hadn’t seen it sooner). It’s a Microsoft TechNet site up on their Scripting Center, that lists a bunch of user-provided PowerShell scripts for managing Group Policy, including a very cool script module for creating, modifying and deleting WMI filters–something that you couldn’t do before without a lot of work.
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Doing Remote GP Updates Against OUs Using PowerShell in Windows 8
A couple of weeks ago I wrote this post on the MSDN site, reviewing some of the new Group Policy features in Windows 8/Server 2012. One of those features was a new PowerShell cmdlet in the Group Policy PowerShell module called invoke-gpupdate. This cmdlet, as the name implies, allows you to do a GPUpdate against remote target machines. This cmdlet is similar to another new feature in…
GPMC PowerShell Cmdlets Updated!
Thanks to a thread on our GPOGUY.COM GPTalk Mailing list, I decided it was time to crack open our GPMC PowerShell module and make a couple of updates. The most significant of these is two new cmdlets:
Get-SDMGPOOwner
Set-SDMGPOOwner
As the name implies, these two cmdlets let you retrieve and set the owner id (AD user or group) on a GPO. This is not something that is exposed in either t…
Finding Empty Group Policy Objects
It’s often the case in larger Group Policy environments, that over time you collect so many GPOs, that you no longer know what all of them do or what’s contained within them. If you’re in the process of trying to cleanup or streamline your GPOs, then finding EMPTY GPOs can be a useful exercise. But it’s not always that simple to find those empty GPOs. When it comes to Group Policy, there’s empty…
New Version of SDM Software GPO Compare Ships!
Just wanted to drop a quick note to let folks know that we just shipped version 2.6 of GPO Compare! This is an incremental update but it includes some key new features, including support in our GPO Compare PowerShell cmdlet for comparing GPO Exporter snapshots. This enables administrators the ability to automate comparison of GPO settings that have been output from our Exporter product.
In…
GPO Exporter 1.6 Ships!
It’s often the case in software that there’s more stuff that you want to do in a product than you have time for in a given release. That was the case with our recent release of GPO Exporter — 1.6. There were a number of things that didn’t make it into 1.5 –principally around our PowerShell support, that we added in 1.6. Chief amongst these are:
The Ability to run our pre-defined reports…
Group Policy Health PowerShell Cmdlet Updated!
Just a quick note that I finally got around to updating our freeware Group Policy Health Cmdlet to add module support for PowerShell v2. Hopefully this makes the cmdlet more discoverable for those of you using it in PowerShell v2 (probably everybody!). The module name is SDM-GPOHealth, so after running the install, just open PowerShell v2 and type:
import-module SDM-GPOHealth and you’ll b…
Automating Group Policy Preferences Drive Mapping with PowerShell [VIDEO]
One of the cool things I like about our Group Policy Automation Engine product is the scenarios that it’s open up by providing what is essentially an automation portal into GPOs. One of those key scenarios is the ability to automate additions and changes to Group Policy Preferences Drive Mappings, which is used by organizations large and small to map user drives at logon, and is largely replacing…
Digging Into Group Policy WMI Filters and Managing them through PowerShell
WMI Filters have been available as a mechanism for filtering the effects of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) since Server 2003 & XP shipped. They are a valuable tool in your Group Policy Management arsenal. As the name implies, WMI filters allow you to filter the effects of a GPO based on queries that execute against the WMI repository on a given client machine (server or workstation). A WMI…
Comparing GPOs to a Baseline Using GPO Compare
One of the cool things about our GPO Compare product is it’s support for PowerShell. The product ships with a PowerShell cmdlet called Compare-SDMGPO that lets you compare live and backed-up GPOs–just like the GUI. We can use this capability to automate the comparison of live GPOs to baseline backups. For example, let’s say you have a baseline template GPO backup from one of Microsoft’s best…
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