by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 26, 2011 | General Stuff, GPMC, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell
When we created our GPMC PowerShell cmdlets in 2008, they made it easy to get at GPMC functionality within PowerShell v1. When Microsoft shipped Windows 7/2008-R2, they also provided their own set of GPMC-related cmdlets within their GroupPolicy module. At the time I...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 8, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Preferences
I recently had a good conversation with a fellow Group Policy MVP about the difference between policies and preferences (i.e. Group Policy Preferences). He asserted that with preferences, the “user can work around the settings (generally.)”. This got me...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 27, 2011 | Videos
In this video, Darren Mar-Elia, SDM Software’s CTO and Founder, demonstrates the SDM Software GPO Exporter product, a tool that quickly and easily document your Group Policy Environment. Whether you are trying to discover an existing environment, find...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 26, 2011 | Videos
In this video, Darren Mar-Elia, SDM Software’s CTO and Founder, demonstrates the SDM Software GPO Compare product, a tool for being able to perform actions such as comparing group policy objects across your Windows enterprise network and creating reports about...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 24, 2011 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools
Anyone that manages Group Policy probably knows about the gpupdate.exe utility that ships with Windows. GPUpdate’s job in life is to refresh Group Policy manually, rather than relying on Windows to do it on it’s own schedule. This can be a useful...
