by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 14, 2016 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Automation, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, Uncategorized, Videos
As you may have heard last week, or seen in our newsletter, or read graffiti’d all over the New York subway system, our Group Policy Automation Engine (GPAE) has added support to help organizations manage their Unix systems with Group Policy! OK, maybe that is a...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 9, 2016 | Desired State Configuration, PowerShell, sdm software
What a great week! I have been wanting to attend this summit for years and it just never got on my short priority list. This year was different and to be honest, it took DSC and DevOps to get me there. I love PowerShell, have been a fan for a very long time. Since my...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 18, 2016 | General Stuff, GP Troubleshooting, Group Policy Blog, Microsoft-Related, PowerShell, registry policy
Darren Mar-Elia and I spent some time this week with a group of consultants and service providers. These folks come from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. Our goal was to talk about Group Policy, some best practices, and share some of our experiences of a...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 17, 2016 | Security-related
Here’s the scenario: You’ve got some Windows servers that contain critical customer data–it might be customer records, or PCI (Payment Card Industry) data, or just a critical system on your network. You rightly use Group Policy Restricted Groups...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 4, 2016 | GP Troubleshooting, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Cleanup, Group Policy Reporting, PowerShell
Following a bit of a theme here. I did some exploring on scenarios related to using the GPO Reporting Pak PowerShell cmdlets to automate some GP troubleshooting. This video talks about searching through the output of your report inside the PowerShell pipeline. This...