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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 13, 2013 | Cool New Products, GPO Compare, sdm software
Hi folks. Just wanted to drop a quick posting to let folks know that last week, we shipped a minor update to our popular GPO Compare product–version 2.8! This new version included some big and little things to help make GPO comparisons much easier. To review,...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 25, 2013 | Desired State Configuration, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Server 2012, Windows 8.1
If you haven’t read my most recent post on Desired State Configuration (DSC)–the new feature coming with the Windows Management Framework v4 (i.e. PowerShell v4, which will ship in the box in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012-R2) then I encourage you to...
