by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 9, 2024 | Tips & Tricks
Happy New Year! On Twitter recently (sorry, I can’t bring myself to call it ‘X’) there was a thread about managing Windows Services using GP. The poster talked about using the setting area under Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 5, 2023 | Tips & Tricks
I have to say that after 25 years of messing around with Group Policy, I am constantly amazed by the new things I still learn about the technology and it’s behavior. Especially when those things are substantial and weird. Such was my experience last week when a...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 31, 2023 | Security-related
You may have caught the recent article about a new malware variant, called SwiftSlicer–attributed to a Russian APT group–that is making its way around Active Directory environments. There’s not a ton of details about how this malware is delivered,...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 1, 2022 | Whitepaper
We’ve published a new whitepaper that describes how you can secure your Group Policy environment using the principles of Administrative Tiering. Admin Tiering lets you segregate sensitive GPOs and containers to administrators with appropriate rights to those,...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 13, 2022 | Security-related
In case you missed it, there were three vulnerabilities related to GP Preferences in the latest October 2022 “Patch Tuesday”. Specifically they were: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-37994...
