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...
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...
