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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 19, 2010 | Cool New Products
This last week, we (SDM Software) released a new version of GPO Compare and a brand new product in GPO Exporter. Why are these significant? Well, first off, GPO Compare now provides full support for all GP settings that were included in Win7 and Server 2008-R2,...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 22, 2010 | Group Policy Preferences, Security-related
Well, I’ve been crazy busy working on some new product releases but I wanted to take a moment to blog about some useful features in GP Preferences that often slip through the cracks. I saw a blog post today about how you could use a custom ADM file to remove...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 16, 2010 | Bugs
Thanks to reader Ryan Steele for bringing my attention to the fact that MS has released a hotfix to resolve the GPMC reporting bug that was introduced when Win7 and Server 2008, R2 shipped. I had documented this bug in an earlier blog post. Ryan let me know that MS...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 11, 2010 | WMI
This entry isn’t strictly related to Group Policy, but something I came across in that context a few days ago. There is a WMI class called Win32_Product. Querying this class lets you enumerate all installed MSI applications on a given system. This might sound...
