by Darren Mar-Elia | May 31, 2013 | Cool New Products, MSTeched, sdm software, TechEd 2013
Hi folks. Just a quick note about next week’s Microsoft TechEd North America conference in New Orleans. If you plan to be at the show and are looking for Group Policy sessions, you will be surprised, as I was, to learn that NO Group Policy sessions are being...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 24, 2013 | Group Policy Design, Group Policy Performance, Tips & Tricks, whitepapers
Just a quick note to let folks know that, in case you missed it, the Group Policy product team at Microsoft posted a nice blog entry discussing Group Policy design decisions that can impact Windows boot and logon times. And, most cool for us, they referenced our...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 7, 2013 | PowerShell, sdm software
This coming Thursday night, May 9th, I’ll be interviewed live on the PowerScripting Podcast, hosted by PowerShell gurus Hal Rottenberg and Jonathan Walz. Tune in at 9:30PM Eastern Daylight Time to catch the live show, or catch the recorded version after the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 2, 2013 | Cloud, Presentations
Today I had the pleasure of presenting at the TechDays conference in San Francisco. I presented on a topic other than Group Policy! And it was fun. I gave a talk entitled, “10 Tips for Success with Private Cloud”, based on my experiences working with...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 25, 2013 | Tips & Tricks, WMI Filters
I was reading a thread on the Microsoft Group Policy TechNet Forum today. The gist of it was that someone was trying to filter a domain-linked GPO by OU membership–in other words, either prevent or allow computers in a given OU to receive a domain-linked GPO,...