by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 22, 2013 | Windows 8.1
A while back I wrote a post describing the new Group Policy caching feature in Windows 8.1. As I mentioned in the post, this feature was designed to speed up GP processing when “synchronous” foreground policy processing was occurring. Synchronous...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 17, 2013 | Group Policy Design, Group Policy Reporting
Folks- I’ve been wanting to record a video for a while now, where I talk about some specific examples of how our GPO Exporter product can really help customers get a handle on their Group Policy environments. In this new video I talk about the challenges...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 26, 2013 | Desired State Configuration, Group Policy, PowerShell
If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’ve become a big fan of the new Desired State Configuration feature in Windows Management Framework 4 (i.e. PowerShell 4). It makes configuring Windows Servers a snap and provides a whole new set of configuration...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 11, 2013 | Group Policy, Group Policy Design, sdm software, Tips & Tricks
A fair bit of what we do here at SDM Software is helping folks get a handle on their Group Policy environments. Using products such as our GPO Reporting Pak, we’ve had lots of customers clean up and reduce the clutter (not to mention improve desktop performance)...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 23, 2013 | Group Policy Reporting, sdm software
All- Just a quick note to encourage you to vote for our GPO Reporting Pak– which combines the GPO Compare and GPO Exporter products–in the category of “Best Active Directory/Group Policy product” for Windows IT Pro Magazine’s Community...