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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 31, 2007 | General Stuff
I just wanted to take this time to wish everyone who is celebrating their new year tonight (or maybe already has celebrated!) a happy new year. 2008 should be a great year! 2007 brought many cool things, including the release of SDM Software’s first...