by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 14, 2021 | General
We’ve had several customers ask us about the very widely reported CVE-2021-44228 “Log4j” vulnerability. We have reviewed our products and confirmed that none of SDM Software’s solutions use or rely on Log4j for any functions and therefore are...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 7, 2021 | Active Directory
This post is a bit of a departure as I’m going to talk about Active Directory security rather than specifically about Group Policy. I was reminded recently about a feature in AD that I haven’t used in nearly 20 years. This feature is based on an area in...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 26, 2021 | General Stuff
A question came up on Twitter the other day related to how Group Policy behaves on a given client, when you move either the computer or user account in Active Directory. As we know, the Group Policy that applies to a computer or user is a function of what GPOs are...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 8, 2021 | GP Troubleshooting
Well, it’s been a while since I last blogged, and this is one I’ve been wanting to write for a while. A few months ago I was trying to troubleshoot why a GPMC backup was throwing errors on Windows Server Core 2012 and 2016. I had installed the GPMC...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 3, 2020 | Security-related
The story of the Trojan Horse is well known to everyone who has taken a history class. True or not, the story goes that the Greeks, in an effort to finally sack the city of Troy, construct a giant wooden horse with some of their top soldiers hidden inside. They wheel...
