by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 2, 2010 | General Stuff
Despite once again having to fetch it from my spam folder, I did indeed get the coveted email from Microsoft yesterday indicating that I’d been made a Group Policy MVP for the 5th year in a row. Cool! I am honored and happy to be an MVP for another year. I look...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 23, 2009 | General Stuff
As many folks probably know, Group Policy slow link detection prior to Windows Vista relied on a series of ICMP pings to determine link speed between the client and domain controller. This process was fairly inprecise and was fraught with issues because many folks...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 20, 2009 | General Stuff
I thought this was cool. John Fontana over at Network World did a nice article on the challenges around the recent Microsoft zero-day vulnerabilities and SDM Software and yours truly got a nice mention on Page 2! Cool!Darren
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 17, 2009 | General Stuff
Hey Folks. Sorry for the long delay in between postings. Lots going on in Group Policy land and in my own life that has been keeping me busy! But, now that I have some time, I wanted to blog about a few things of note, in no particular order:Thanks to Mike Kline for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 13, 2009 | General Stuff
I thought this was cool: https://blogs.technet.com/grouppolicy/archive/2009/05/12/group-policy-at-tech-ed-2009-mark-russinovich-demos-group-policy-powershell-cmdlets.aspxMark demo’d Microsoft’s upcoming Group Policy PowerShell cmdlets that will ship with...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 22, 2009 | General Stuff
If you’re planning on being at the Microsoft Management Summit next week, I’ll be presenting a Group Policy Troubleshooting session there on Wednesday morning. Stop by and say hi or attend the session or the Birds of a Feather I’ll be doing that...
