by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 17, 2026 | News
Organizations across 20+ countries leverage SDM Software products to ensure a secure and steady configuration state across Group Policy and Intune San Anselmo, California, February 17, 2026 ─ SDM Software, the Configuration Experts in Group Policy and Intune, recorded...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 20, 2026 | Tips & Tricks
On Twitter/X I saw a thread about managing Windows Services using Group Policy. The poster talked about using the setting area under Computer ConfigurationPoliciesWindows SettingsSecurity SettingsSystem Services to control Windows Service startup settings (e.g.,...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 15, 2026 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools
Anyone who manages Group Policy (GP) knows about the gpupdate.exe utility that ships with Windows. GPUpdate’s job is to refresh Group Policy manually, rather than relying on Windows to do it on its own schedule. Specifically, it can be used to force the system to ask...
