by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 14, 2011 | GPMC, PowerShell
Sometimes you want to know how many GPOs you have in a domain. Powershell provides a way to do this quickly and easily. Earlier today I tweeted about the way to do this in Windows 7 or Server 2008-R2, using the Microsoft-provided “GroupPolicy” PowerShell...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 4, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy
If you aren’t already following my twitter feed (@grouppolicyguy) then here’s a new reason to do so. I’m posting quick Group Policy “Tips of the Day” on Twitter, for as long as I can think of them :-). Check them out and let me know what...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 29, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy
Someone asked me recently what I thought of using Deny ACEs on GPOs for security group filtering. First, a little background. As you probably know, you can control which users and computers will process a particular GPO by using security filtering on that GPO. The...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 8, 2010 | iPad, VDI
Saw this site put up by Citrix today–www.ipadsatwork.com. I thought it was an interesting approach–pitching iPads in the enterprise by making the iPad a glorified dumb terminal, via the Citrix Receiver, for accessing your Windows desktop and apps. While I...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 18, 2010 | General Stuff, Group Policy, PowerShell, Uncategorized
Someone recently asked about the best way to perform bulk GPO renames. Of course, there are probably many reasons why you would want to do this (e.g. moving to a standard naming convention, cleaning up mis-named GPOs, etc.) but for my money, there is one technology...
