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...
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.
