by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 12, 2007 | General Stuff
A while back, Mark Russinovich (the pre-Microsoft Mark Russinovich!) had blogged about being able to circumvent some Group Policy using a DLL injection method that intercepted calls to the registry keys used by policy. He created a tool at the time called gpdisable...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 5, 2007 | General Stuff
Someone emailed a question to the GPOGUY GPTalk mailing list today that I thought was worth chatting about. The question pertained to disappearing Group Policy links. Namely, he had a situation where links to GPOs would periodically disappear from Active...
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...