by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 10, 2010 | Cool New Products, Group Policy, PowerShell, sdm software
One of the cool things we added in the new version of GPO Compare 2.0 was support for a PowerShell interface. GPO Compare 2.0 is all about letting you compare GPO settings across two live or backed up GPOs. The PowerShell interface lets you perform these comparisons...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 1, 2010 | Group Policy Preferences, Security-related
Recently someone asked if it was possible to disable the print screen functionality on their keyboard through Group Policy. My initial response was that I had never seen a policy setting to do this, and indeed I figured that you would need to do some low level...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 4, 2010 | VDI
In a bit of a departure from my normal Group Policy banter, I wanted to talk a little bit about VDI, or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Like most things around virtualization, there’s a ton of hype about the promise of virtualizing desktops. Companies are...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 23, 2010 | General Stuff, Group Policy Preferences, Security-related
Microsoft recently announced a new security vulnerability in Windows shortcuts that affects all versions of Windows since XP! Its references here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2286198. This particular vulnerability takes advantage of the icon that appears in...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 22, 2010 | General Stuff, Microsoft-Related, Security Policy, Security-related
Some of you may have seen a twitter post I did a while back letting folks know about the Security Compliance Manager, which is a tool from Microsoft that lets you manage, edit, report, search and export security templates and baselines. This tool is pretty cool, but...
