by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 10, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
When Microsoft shipped Windows 8 & Windows Server 2012, they added a new feature in GPMC, that allows you to perform remote Group Policy Updates on OUs of computers. I covered this feature in my previous roundup of Windows 8.1 Group Policy features. This feature...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 27, 2014 | Group Policy Reporting
A frequent scenario that we come across here at SDM Software, are customers looking for help in discovering Group Policy differences between OUs. Namely, they may have a Marketing OU and a Sales OU that have GPOs linked to them, and they’d like to know how those...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 19, 2014 | Group Policy Preferences
For those of you following this issue, which I blogged about previously, you’ll know that several areas within Group Policy Preferences allowed for defining of passwords that were stored with the GPO settings storage in SYSVOL. These passwords were stored using...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 28, 2014 | Group Policy Automation, IE Policy, PowerShell
Over this last weekend, Microsoft published warnings of yet another zero-day “memory corruption” Internet Explorer vulnerability to all versions of the venerable browser . Since there is no current patch for this yet, IT administrators are left to mitigate...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 22, 2014 | General Stuff
Love it or hate it, Group Policy has been a fixture of Windows configuration management for over a decade. As someone who has been intimately involved in both its past and its future, I have had the same mixed relationship with both Group Policy and Microsoft. Here at...
