by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 2, 2008 | General Stuff
Well, for those of you out there who are Microsoft MVPs, you know that getting that email announcing that you’ve been renewed for another year is a good feeling. Since my MVP status expires on the year end, I usually get my notice on January 1st, which is a good...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 31, 2007 | General Stuff
I just wanted to take this time to wish everyone who is celebrating their new year tonight (or maybe already has celebrated!) a happy new year. 2008 should be a great year! 2007 brought many cool things, including the release of SDM Software’s first...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 24, 2007 | General Stuff
If you were looking for something to do this holiday season with all that spare time, January’s issue of TechNet Magazine has no less then 3 articles devoted to Group Policy, including an article I wrote on optimizng Group Policy Performance. Enjoy!Tags:Group...
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 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...
