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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 18, 2012 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, IE Policy, Tips & Tricks
A recent thread on the GPOGUY.COM GPTalk Mailing list prompted me to write about managing IE settings using Group Policy. In an article I wrote for Windows IT Pro Magazine in 2011, I talked about the various technologies in Group Policy that you can use to manage IE...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 1, 2012 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, Microsoft-Related
I was reading Paul Thurrott’s most recent column on the Windows IT Pro Magazine website today. The column ostensibly talked about naming of features and products in Windows 8, but at the bottom, was this interesting tidbit, “Blurring the lines in a way...
