by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 29, 2012 | Group Policy Preferences, IE Maintenance Policy, Windows 8
As I blogged a few days back, Microsoft has deprecated (or removed) IE Maintenance Policy in Windows 8/Server 2012. And while I think this is a generally good thing, some folks may be wondering how they’re going to configure IE going forward. Well, Microsoft has...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 17, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools
Today we here at SDM Software were notified that our Group Policy Automation Engine product won the WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Award — 2nd runner up for Group Policy Management products! This goes along with this product’s 2009 Windows IT...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 14, 2012 | Group Policy Management, IE Maintenance Policy, Windows 8
Fellow Group Policy MVP Alan Burchill brought this topic up on our GP MVP mailing list and I had to look into it. He pointed out that in the release candidate for Server 2012/Windows 8, the IE Maintenance Policy node can no longer be found within GP Editor, as shown...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 26, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Performance, Tips & Tricks
At the recent TechEd North America talk I gave, entitled, “Best Practices for Group Policy Design with Performance and Security in Mind”, one of the areas I covered was the impact of Client Side Extensions (CSEs) that only run during a synchronous GP...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 18, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Teched 2012
Well, TechEd was great as usual–lots of Win8 info sloshing around as well as Azure everywhere, including the recent announcement that Microsoft will be offering “Infrastructure-as-a-Service” (IaaS) instances in Azure now, ala Amazon EC2. It will be...
