by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 29, 2007 | PowerShell
This is the 2nd in an irregular series of discussions about using SDM Software PowerShell cmdlets for managing Group Policy. In this post, I’ve written a fairly simple PowerShell script that uses two of our free GPMC cmdlets to first backup a GPO, and then...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 29, 2007 | sdm software
Windows IT Pro Magazine has a good review of SDM Software’s GPExpert Troubleshooting Pak in the December issue. The reviewer did a pretty good job of covering the product, and while there were a few technical inaccuracies, I think we did pretty well! Check it...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 14, 2007 | PowerShell
Well, I suppose I couldn’t help myself. I had planned on updating our cmdlets released last week to correct an omission that Richard Siddaway had kindly pointed out, namely that I didn’t have a remove-sdmgplink to go along with add-sdmgplink. So I...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 13, 2007 | General Stuff
Yesterday at TechEd in Barcelona, Microsoft made a slew of announcements. And buried in those announcements was the note about Group Policy Preferences. This is the name Microsoft has given to the DesktopStandard PolicyMaker extensions that they acquired last...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 9, 2007 | PowerShell
Well, many of you know that we released the GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell back at the end of July. The Toolkit lets you modify the settings within Group Policy objects using PowerShell. I also had a couple of cmdlets out on my GPOGUY.COM site that wrapped...
