by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 1, 2008 | General Stuff
I thought this Information Week article did a good job of articulating the challenges of security compliance on Windows, and the use of Group Policy as the first line of defense here. Most folks have been using GP to lockdown their desktop systems for a while now, but...
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...
