by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 22, 2008 | General Stuff
One of the irritating side effects of using Group Policy security group filtering on computers is that, if you change a computer’s group membership, you either had to reboot the computer or wait the default 7 days for the computer’s Kerberos ticket to...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 30, 2008 | General Stuff
I suppose the din of Vista haters has been increasing lately to the point where I’ve actually noticed it. Lastw week, I read a blog post from my good buddy Jackson Shaw, who expressed his frustrations over Vista and IE7. And of course the technology press and...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 30, 2008 | General Stuff
The folks at NetWrix have just announced their newest product–Group Policy Change Reporter. The product comes in both a freeware and commercial version and can provide detailed change reporting on who made changes to GPOs, what settings were changed and...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 18, 2008 | General Stuff
I noticed that Jeff Hicks called me out on his blog for the Scripting/SysAdmin Meme, so I figured I would follow through with the chain and answer the questions here:How old were you when you started using computers?I was about 15. What was your first...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 7, 2008 | General Stuff
I’ve heard this question often enough since the Remote Server Administration Tools shipped that I thought it was worth blogging about it. After you install RSAT on your Vista, SP1 machine, you won’t find GPMC installed right away. You’ll need to go...
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...
