by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 18, 2012 | Group Policy Performance, Group Policy Preferences, Group Policy Reporting, Tips & Tricks
In my previous blog post, I wrote about some new reporting we’ll be providing in version 2.0 of our GPO Exporter product. One of the reports in that new version identifies GPOs that contain “expensive” Group Policy Preferences Item-Level Targeting...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 14, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Performance, Group Policy Reporting, Group Policy Tools, sdm software, Windows 8
If you’ve followed my blog postings and articles recently, you know that I’ve been speaking and writing on decisions that you can make in your Group Policy design that impact GP processing performance, and often, perceived desktop performance by the end...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 30, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
A couple of weeks ago I wrote this post on the MSDN site, reviewing some of the new Group Policy features in Windows 8/Server 2012. One of those features was a new PowerShell cmdlet in the Group Policy PowerShell module called invoke-gpupdate. This cmdlet, as the name...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 21, 2012 | Freeware, GP Troubleshooting, GPOGUY.COM, Group Policy Tools
Sometimes I’ve been doing this Group Policy thing for so long, that I forget some of the things I’ve done in the past. Today, I got another reminder of this when someone asked how they could find out how long Group Policy processing was taking on a remote...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 19, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
I saw a thread on the Microsoft TechNet forums yesterday that prompted me to write a quick post about this behavior change for the Group Policy client service in Windows 8. In order to live in a world of new Windows 8 devices that use less power or may be on all the...
