by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 24, 2014 | General Stuff
Hi folks- Just wanted to drop a quick note to let you all know that we (SDM Software) are putting on a Group Policy Q&A Free-for-All on March 12th, at 9am US Pacific Time (UTC-8). If you’ve got Group Policy questions–come to the webinar and I’ll...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 6, 2013 | General Stuff
Hey Folks- Just a quick note to let you know that Microsoft just released their settings spreadsheet for Admin Template settings available in Windows 8.1 and Server 2012-R2. This handy Excel doc lets you search for available Admin Template and security settings for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 19, 2012 | Event Logs, General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Security Policy
I was trolling around GP Editor in Windows 8 and found a set of Administrative Template settings that I had not seen before. Interestingly, those setting did indeed exist in Windows 7 (and probably Vista) so it was just me missing them. Prior to those OS releases, if...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 7, 2012 | General Stuff, GP Troubleshooting, Group Policy, Server 2012, Windows 8
Hi Folks. Just a quick note to let you know that I just posted a little article on the Microsoft MSDN blog site with a review of the big changes for Group Policy in Windows Server 2012 (and Windows 8). Hopefully it provides some useful insight into what is coming for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 13, 2012 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management
Last Tuesday, I gave a talk locally in San Francisco at the Pacific IT Pros monthly meeting, on “Best Practices for Group Policy Design”. It was largely based on the talk I gave at TechEd 2012 this past June, related to how to make good decisions around...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 21, 2012 | Cool New Products, General Stuff, GPMC, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, RSOP, Windows 8
While much is changing in Windows 8, the changes related to Group Policy are more modest. One of these modest changes is in the Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) functionality, exposed through the Group Policy Results Wizard in GPMC. This wizard was always my first...
