by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 22, 2007 | General Stuff
A question that appeared on the newsgroups today prompted me to blog about Group Policy Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) and its capabilities. RSOP was first introduced in Windows XP as a way of letting administrators find out what happened during the last GP processing...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 15, 2007 | General Stuff
In the vein of interesting desktop configuration management tools, the company that created the product ScriptStart, Entrigue Systems, announced that it is going to be open sourcing a version of their logon script based desktop configuration tool. While this...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 12, 2007 | General Stuff
Well, I’m back from TechEd and settling back into the work groove. If you weren’t there, well I’m here to tell you that TechEd is one BIG show. I heard numbers of people ranging from 12,000 to 13,000. The Orlando Convention Center redefines big as...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 10, 2007 | General Stuff
I read today that Microsoft has shipped the updated Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance customers that includes the DesktopStandard GPOVault product, which MS is calling "Advanced Group Policy Management". For those who don’t know,...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 5, 2007 | General Stuff
So, what do these three topics in the title have in common? Some might read that and think, "well, nothing". But indeed its not the case. Microsoft has kicked an open source project and one of the first tools to go into that process is a Group Polic y tool....
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 24, 2007 | General Stuff
I had an opportuntiy to attend this week’s Directory Expert’s Conference, put on by Netpro. I’m told that this year’s conference was the biggest ever, at nearly 800 people. If you go to only one AD related conference in a year, this is the...
