by Darren Mar-Elia | May 30, 2008 | Group Policy Preferences
I have heard a lot of questions about the need to install the pre-requisite XMLLite package on XP and Server 2003 prior to installing the Group Policy Preferences Client Side Extensions to those versions of Windows. The fact is that XMLLite is currently not...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 22, 2008 | Office
If you are one of the many IT administrators I’ve talked to that doesn’t like how Microsoft essentially broke Group Policy Software Installation-based deployment of Office when they released Office 2007, here’s how you can provide feedback to...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 21, 2008 | General Stuff
I just wanted to let everyone know that Microsoft Press has released a new version of the popular "Goup Policy Guide" book that fellow GP MVP Derek Melber and I contributed to a couple of years ago. This time Derek took the project on himself and the result...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 19, 2008 | General Stuff
Hey folks. I just wanted to let you all know that I will be giving a webinar about using Group Policy to create secure desktop configurations next week. The webinar is all about looking at the technology within Group Policy related to creating secure...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 8, 2008 | General Stuff
The other day I got a question about one of our free GPMC PowerShell cmdlets–namely, the Add-SDMgpoSecurity that lets you modify GPO security. One of the permissions that you can grant using the cmdlet is the GPO creation permission–which controls who can...