by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 22, 2010 | Cool New Products, Group Policy, Group Policy Preferences, PowerShell
This is my 2nd blog post around using the PowerShell features in the two products of SDM Software’s GPO Reporting Pak. In this post, I’ll talk about the GPO Exporter product, which, as the name implies, lets you export Group Policy settings. The cool thing...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 14, 2010 | General Stuff
I recently wrote a whitepaper for my friends over at Beyondtrust that talks about the challenges and choices of trying to get to what I call “Best Privilege” on Windows desktops. The idea here is that a secure Windows desktop is one in which the user is...
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...
