by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 29, 2013 | Tips & Tricks
Last month, I wrote an article on the Petri.co.il website, reviewing the new features around Group Policy in Windows 8.1. Buried in that list of new stuff was a feature that was perhaps a little unheralded and under-advertised, but one that may cause administrators a...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 12, 2013 | Group Policy Preferences, IE Policy
[animate animation=”fadeIn” delay=”0″ duration=”2s” iterations=”1″]Get The Most Complete Group Policy Change Auditing Solution![/animate] With IE 11 now generally available for Windows 7 and newer versions, the obvious...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 6, 2013 | General Stuff
Hey Folks- Just a quick note to let you know that Microsoft just released their settings spreadsheet for Admin Template settings available in Windows 8.1 and Server 2012-R2. This handy Excel doc lets you search for available Admin Template and security settings for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 5, 2013 | PowerShell, Tips & Tricks
Recently, as part of one of our Group Policy consulting engagements, we recommended to a customer to adopt a consistent GPO naming standard. This kind of standard makes the function and purpose of a GPO more clear and eases discovery of a Group Policy environment. As...
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...