by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 19, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software
It’s often the case in larger Group Policy environments, that over time you collect so many GPOs, that you no longer know what all of them do or what’s contained within them. If you’re in the process of trying to cleanup or streamline your GPOs, then...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 16, 2012 | Bugs, Folder Redirection, Group Policy
One of the members of my gptalk mailing list posted this very informative email today regarding some issues he encountered with Folder Redirection. I figured it was worthwhile to re-post it here for everyone’s benefit. Hope everyone finds it useful! ...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 20, 2012 | Cool New Products, GPO Compare, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Reporting, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software
Just wanted to drop a quick note to let folks know that we just shipped version 2.6 of GPO Compare! This is an incremental update but it includes some key new features, including support in our GPO Compare PowerShell cmdlet for comparing GPO Exporter snapshots. This...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 19, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Tools, registry policy, Security Policy, Tips & Tricks
A recent thread on Mark Minasi’s forum site reminded me of a topic that comes up every once in a while–namely, how do you cleanly remove Group Policy settings from a machine that has been removed from an AD domain. The answer is to avoid the problem in the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 31, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software
Windows IT Pro Magazine is holding their annual Community Choice Awards for IT products. SDM Software has three products nominated this year, as follows: Best Active Directory & Group Policy Product SDM Software GPO Reporting Pak SDM Software Group Policy...