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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 19, 2008 | General Stuff
Hey folks. I just wanted to let you all know that I will be giving a webinar about using Group Policy to create secure desktop configurations next week. The webinar is all about looking at the technology within Group Policy related to creating secure...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 8, 2008 | General Stuff
The other day I got a question about one of our free GPMC PowerShell cmdlets–namely, the Add-SDMgpoSecurity that lets you modify GPO security. One of the permissions that you can grant using the cmdlet is the GPO creation permission–which controls who can...
