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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 17, 2017 | Cool New Products, Freeware, General Stuff, GP Troubleshooting, Group Policy Blog, registry policy, sdm software
Darren took the time to prove to us that even the greatest tools can be improved! Thank you for that. The Registry Policy Viewer that GPOGuy introduced years ago has continued to be a favorite. A few new features have been added and some really interesting usability...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 10, 2017 | Freeware
Happy New Year Everyone! I hope everyone made it safely through the holidays. To start off 2017, we’ve been working to update some of our existing freeware tools. The first beneficiary of that work is our Group Policy Health Reporter utility, now at version 1.9...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 9, 2017 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Compliance, Group Policy News, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software
Getting Started It is great to have this update to Group Policy Compliance Manager. Some great features to provide for management at scale, some nice refinements and fixes. Overall the system is running great and the ability to get up and running is quick and...