by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 9, 2017 | Cool New Products
Hey Folks- Today I’m happy to announce that we’re partnering with Semperis–a leader in providing Active Directory recovery solutions–to help bring customers more complete solutions around AD & GP management. I’m particularly excited...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 3, 2017 | Security-related
While the title to this post may sound a bit scary or ominous, the subject of this post is definitely real. A fellow IT guy whom I’ve known for many years, alerted me to a situation he came across in an IT shop he was helping. Namely, the customer’s...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 27, 2017 | GP Troubleshooting
When I was working on the update for our Group Policy Health Reporter freeware tool recently, I noticed a very annoying “feature” that Microsoft seemed to introduce into Group Policy on Windows 7 and 2008-R2 systems. I’m pretty sure it started when...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 15, 2017 | Security Policy
With RSA Conference going on this week here in San Francisco, I thought it was timely to talk about Group Policy’s role in securing your Windows environment. Many of you are undoubtedly using Group Policy to deliver security settings, based on industry-standard...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 19, 2017 | Group Policy Automation, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software
PowerShell has increased in popularity quite a bit over the past few years. I recall my initial reaction to Jeffrey Snover’s ‘Monad Manifesto’ that was published back in 2002 or so. It was quite revolutionary. Over the years it has been exciting to...
