by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 29, 2008 | PowerShell
Well, if you’ve read my blog at all, you know that there are two technology areas that are especially interesting to me–Group Policy and PowerShell. Once again, I’ve brought the two together in the form of a new freeware cmdlet for triggering remote...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 17, 2008 | General Stuff
If you haven’t already seen it, check out my article in this month’s TechNet Magazine on "Optimizing Group Policy Performance". The article goes into fair bit of detail about things you can do (or not do) to ensure that GP performance is good on...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 15, 2008 | General Stuff
I sat in on a Microsoft webcast presentation of the upcoming release of Group Policy Preferences, which I blogged about earlier. This is the old DesktopStandard PolicyMaker stuff for extending Group Policy to do much more than it does today. While I used to work with...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 3, 2008 | sdm software
Late last year, we (SDM Software that is!) announced the GPExpert™ Backup Manager for Group Policy product. Well, the product is now available to trial on our website. The product leverages the GPMC’s backup format but also includes some neat features such...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 2, 2008 | General Stuff
Well, for those of you out there who are Microsoft MVPs, you know that getting that email announcing that you’ve been renewed for another year is a good feeling. Since my MVP status expires on the year end, I usually get my notice on January 1st, which is a good...