by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 2, 2014 | Windows 10
Recently I’ve been testing Windows 10 Preview Enterprise. It’s always good to see how new features in new versions of Windows will behave in a typical enterprise environment. One feature that carries forward from Windows 8.x into Windows 10 is the Start...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 18, 2014 | General Stuff
Hi Folks- Just wanted to drop a quite note to let everyone know that myself (Darren Mar-Elia) and Kevin Sullivan (@kevsully67), Director of Sales Engineering at SpecOps Software are doing a webinar on PowerShell and WMI. If you’ve always wanted to learn about...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 11, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
If you live in a Group Policy world that heavily leverages WMI filters, then this tip is for you. Fellow Group Policy MVP Martin Binder wrote up a nice post about how you can optimize WMI filter queries (WQL queries) to improve their processing performance. This...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 15, 2014 | Technology Futures
Over the past year, I’ve had occasion to work with some large enterprises that are pushing the envelope in terms of what the next generation of client computing will look like. In the process of this work, I’ve come to recognize what I think will be an...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 8, 2014 | Group Policy Tools
It seems like a logical thing to be able to do–you have a bunch of GPOs and you want to search for settings across them. In fact, it turns out to be a fair bit of work with native tools. It’s true that Microsoft has provided, for a while now, an...
