by Darren Mar-Elia | May 19, 2014 | Group Policy Preferences
For those of you following this issue, which I blogged about previously, you’ll know that several areas within Group Policy Preferences allowed for defining of passwords that were stored with the GPO settings storage in SYSVOL. These passwords were stored using...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 28, 2014 | Group Policy Automation, IE Policy, PowerShell
Over this last weekend, Microsoft published warnings of yet another zero-day “memory corruption” Internet Explorer vulnerability to all versions of the venerable browser . Since there is no current patch for this yet, IT administrators are left to mitigate...
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...
