by Darren Mar-Elia | May 27, 2016 | Whitepaper
Policies & Preferences You’ve probably heard of registry tattooing as it relates to NT 4 system policy. Tattooing was the effect that you saw whenever you applied a registry policy to a computer or user and then removed that policy file. Even though the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 17, 2016 | sdm software
SDM Software is extremely excited to have Walt Ramick join our team leading both our tactical and strategic sales efforts. Walt has been involved with organizations selling enterprise software and services for over a decade and brings a wealth of knowledge around the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 11, 2016 | Desired State Configuration
It’s been about a year since Microsoft first announced plans to deliver Nano Server–a new SKU of Windows Server that is essentially a highly stripped down version of the OS, optimized for cloud/data center environments and container/micro-service...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 27, 2016 | Group Policy Compliance
Last year we shipped the Group Policy Compliance Manager (GPCM) product–our enterprise compliance reporting solution for Group Policy. Today we are releasing a new PowerShell module to go along with GPCM. This module allows for some cool capabilities for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 19, 2016 | Group Policy Automation, Group Policy Blog, PowerShell, sdm software
OK, so this is not a ‘new’ story but it is an interesting one. Since the first script kitties were writing viruses that did nefarious things we had ways to ensure we could limit their impact. Redirecting .vbs to notepad was super common. I saw a tweet...