by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 13, 2022 | Security-related
In case you missed it, there were three vulnerabilities related to GP Preferences in the latest October 2022 “Patch Tuesday”. Specifically they were: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-37994...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 13, 2022 | General Stuff
One of the annoying things about Group Policy, is that delegations to GPOs are not cleaned up when the underlying security principal (e.g. user, computer or group) is deleted in Active Directory. For example, if you create a security filter on a GPO for a particular...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 17, 2022 | Security-related
Well, I have to admit that it’s been a while since I have found something interesting to blog about related to Group Policy. Despite the fact that the technology is still widely used, how much new can you say about something that’s 21+ years old? Well, as...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 14, 2021 | General
We’ve had several customers ask us about the very widely reported CVE-2021-44228 “Log4j” vulnerability. We have reviewed our products and confirmed that none of SDM Software’s solutions use or rely on Log4j for any functions and therefore are...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 7, 2021 | Active Directory
This post is a bit of a departure as I’m going to talk about Active Directory security rather than specifically about Group Policy. I was reminded recently about a feature in AD that I haven’t used in nearly 20 years. This feature is based on an area in...
