by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 23, 2015 | Training
I’ve spread the news a bit on social media, but I wanted to officially blog about the fact that my “Group Policy Fundamentals” video training course is now available for Pluralsight subscribers. This course was definitely a labor of love for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 13, 2015 | Security-related
Earlier this week, Microsoft released a couple of patches that addressed vulnerabilities in our good friend Group Policy. First, I will say that it’s relatively rare to see such vulnerabilities directly effect Group Policy function, like this one does....
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 4, 2015 | Group Policy Design
I’m sure everyone has heard the phrase, “when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. Sometimes Group Policy can be this way. I’ve been doing Group Policy now, for, well…a long time. Before that, I was an early aficionado of...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 28, 2015 | Group Policy Compliance
You’ll recall a couple of blog posts ago, I announced that we had shipped our Group Policy Compliance Manager (GPCM) product, which allows you to report on what Group Policy is doing on all your end nodes that process policy. One of the key use cases for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 23, 2015 | Tips & Tricks
Just the other day I was talking to a customer about Group Policy loopback. If you’ll recall, loopback is that feature in Group Policy processing that allows you to override a user’s *normal* user policy settings when they log into specific...
