by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 15, 2016 | Group Policy Automation, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Reporting, PowerShell, sdm software
Part II of our GPO Impact Analysis. For the purpose of this post the primary capability of Export-SDMGPSettings is to grab a ‘snapshot’ of all of the settings managed in a set of GPOs. Export-SDMGPSettings is one of the core cmdlets that make up the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 10, 2016 | Security-related
I had a chance to attend my first BlackHat/Defcon conference last week in Las Vegas. I also attended the very excellent BSides conference, happening concurrently. Besides being shaken to my core from the skills demonstrated during the week :-), I got a chance to see...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 8, 2016 | GP Troubleshooting, Group Policy, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Reporting, PowerShell, sdm software
One of the many scenarios that organizations contend with is impact analysis. For SDM Software this is about configuration and most importantly security configuration. For example, what happens if you go into Active Directory Users and Computers and move Server1 from...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
As promised I posted a quick video (OK not too quick) to walk through using the PowerShell pieces of GPO Reporting Pak to remove empty GPOs. The previous post describes the process and this video simply provides the walk through. There are so may things that one can...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 28, 2016 | Whitepaper
What is Desired State Configuration? How is it related to Group Policy? This paper is authored to start a conversation to answer these questions. On the surface they may seem simple, but the ability to answer the question thoughtfully takes some knowledge of what this...
