by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 5, 2026 | Group Policy, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Management, Tips & Tricks
If you’ve worked with Group Policy for any length of time, you’ve probably heard the term ‘registry tattooing’. The concept dates back to NT 4.0 System Policies, for those Windows veterans who remember it. Tattooing occurred when a registry-based policy...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 17, 2026 | News
Organizations across 20+ countries leverage SDM Software products to ensure a secure and steady configuration state across Group Policy and Intune San Anselmo, California, February 17, 2026 ─ SDM Software, the Configuration Experts in Group Policy and Intune, recorded...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 16, 2026 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Tips & Tricks
Group Policy uses a complex, at times inconsistent, model to store configured settings in a Group Policy Object (GPO). This stems from the historical development of Group Policy. While a central team at Microsoft built the Group Policy infrastructure, individual...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 21, 2026 | Security-related
It’s been a while since I’ve addressed this topic. Something like 9 years to be exact. But for sure, the problem of malware leveraging Group Policy to propagate itself is still very much alive. In the original article, an IT friend of mine mentioned...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 20, 2026 | Tips & Tricks
On Twitter/X I saw a thread about managing Windows Services using Group Policy. The poster talked about using the setting area under Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\System Services to control Windows Service startup settings (e.g.,...
