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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 30, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, sdm software
Well, 2011 is almost over, and it’s a been a great year for SDM Software. We achieved record revenue results this year–smashing last year’s total by over 300%– and have over 150 customers to thank for our continued success. This is in addition...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 24, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Preferences, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
Recently I’ve had some conversations with folks that related to their irritation that “legacy” Group Policy settings such as Admin. Templates, Security Settings, Software Installation, etc. could not benefit from the fine-grained...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 8, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management
Someone at Microsoft was kind enough to put together a nice list of all the various ADMX files that Microsoft product groups provide for extending Administrative Templates within Group Policy. Bravo for him doing this work:...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 26, 2011 | General Stuff, GPMC, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell
When we created our GPMC PowerShell cmdlets in 2008, they made it easy to get at GPMC functionality within PowerShell v1. When Microsoft shipped Windows 7/2008-R2, they also provided their own set of GPMC-related cmdlets within their GroupPolicy module. At the time I...
