by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 8, 2012 | Group Policy Tools, MSTeched, sdm software
All- If you’re headed to MS TechEd next week in Orlando, SDM Software will be there in spirit. We won’t have a booth there, but I’m speaking on Monday at 3pm on “Best Practices for Group Policy Design”. In addition, I’ll be hanging...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 7, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software, Tips & Tricks
One of the challenges any reasonable-sized IT shop has around Group Policy is the need to be able to find and discover all the settings that have been deployed. Something as simple as searching for one or more settings across all settings is pretty tough to do in the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 22, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software
This video describes the concept of “GPO Sprawl”, how it impacts you and how you can help clean up your Group Policy environment using GPO Exporter 1.5.
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 21, 2012 | Cool New Products, General Stuff, GPMC, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, RSOP, Windows 8
While much is changing in Windows 8, the changes related to Group Policy are more modest. One of these modest changes is in the Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) functionality, exposed through the Group Policy Results Wizard in GPMC. This wizard was always my first...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 18, 2012 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, IE Policy, Tips & Tricks
A recent thread on the GPOGUY.COM GPTalk Mailing list prompted me to write about managing IE settings using Group Policy. In an article I wrote for Windows IT Pro Magazine in 2011, I talked about the various technologies in Group Policy that you can use to manage IE...
