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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 7, 2014 | Folder Redirection
There’s no question that traditional file services (e.g. Windows file servers, NAS filers, etc.) are slowly being usurped in the enterprise, by cloud storage vendors such as Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, Box, Dropbox and Citrix Sharefile. And while some...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 13, 2014 | Desired State Configuration
For those of you who read my blog, you’ll know that I am a big fan of the Desired State Configuration feature Microsoft introduced in PowerShell v4. For more information, you can see my early walkthrough of DSC and a comparison of Group Policy vs. DSC. And while...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 8, 2014 | sdm software
We just wanted to make a quick announcement for our US government customers that SDM Software is now an approved GSA contractor, and all of our products are available via GSA Schedule. That includes our powerful Group Policy products such as GPO Compare, GPO Exporter...
