by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 4, 2008 | Group Policy Preferences
I’ve seen a lot of interest in Group Policy Preferences since its release, and a lot of confusion about whether you can use it if you don’t have Windows Server 2008 in your environment (you can!) so I thought it would be useful to create a quick whitepaper...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 1, 2008 | General Stuff
I thought this Information Week article did a good job of articulating the challenges of security compliance on Windows, and the use of Group Policy as the first line of defense here. Most folks have been using GP to lockdown their desktop systems for a while now, but...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 28, 2008 | Group Policy Preferences
I frequently find that a lot of folks have not yet discovered all of the cool new Group Policy management features that Group Policy Preferences brings to Windows. As a result, I thought it would be worthwhile to do a couple of blog items about some of these features....
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 22, 2008 | General Stuff
One of the irritating side effects of using Group Policy security group filtering on computers is that, if you change a computer’s group membership, you either had to reboot the computer or wait the default 7 days for the computer’s Kerberos ticket to...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 30, 2008 | General Stuff
I suppose the din of Vista haters has been increasing lately to the point where I’ve actually noticed it. Lastw week, I read a blog post from my good buddy Jackson Shaw, who expressed his frustrations over Vista and IE7. And of course the technology press and...
