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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 8, 2014 | Windows 8.1
Last week, Microsoft shipped to MSDN subscribers, the bits for the first update to Windows 8.1. Regular users of 8.1 will get the update starting today, through Windows Update. A natural question would be, did Microsoft make any outwardly visible improvements or...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 12, 2014 | IE Maintenance Policy
There’s no doubt that Microsoft’s dropping support of IE Maintenance Policy for systems running IE 10 and above has been a blessing and a curse. As I’ve observed, the blog postings I’ve done on this site related to this issue continue to have...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 5, 2014 | GPOGUY.COM
Hi Folks If you’re a fan of my gpoguy.com web site, which I started many years ago as a resource for all things Group Policy, you’ll be interested in this latest news. In order to provide a single spot where you can get great information on Group Policy,...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 25, 2014 | Whitepaper, whitepapers
Before you do anything, make sure the GPO is really not being processed or not being processed correctly. Run gpresult.exe on the affected client to ensure that you’re actually not getting the policy you expect. 1. Your AD domain controllers are not correctly...
