by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 21, 2014 | Group Policy Preferences, IE Policy, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
An astute reader of this blog brought an interesting scenario to my attention, and I spent some time confirming it. For those of you running Windows 8 (or 8.1) there’s a neat “feature” that allows your users to circumvent controls you put in place...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 14, 2014 | Group Policy Cleanup
Group Policy Cleanup and optimization is top-of-mind for many of our customers. One of the key tools for helping customers achieve optimized GPO environments, SDM Software’s GPO Exporter product, just got an update recently. One of the small improvements we...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 27, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
Ever since Microsoft introduced the Central Store — a folder in SYSVOL where you can centrally keep all of your ADMX and ADML template files for Group Policy management — you’ve had to make all or nothing decisions about which ADMX files you could...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 22, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
If you haven’t already seen it, it’s now been widely documented that the feature within GP Preferences Group Policy that allows you to store passwords within a GPO for a variety of uses, is essentially not secure. If you haven’t read one of these...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 20, 2014 | Group Policy Change Auditing
There’s no doubt that the built-in security auditing in Windows is thorough–sometimes too thorough, as anyone who has tried to manage auditing logs in large AD environments knows. But when it comes to auditing Group Policy changes, the native auditing can...
