by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 4, 2016 | GP Troubleshooting, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Cleanup, Group Policy Reporting, PowerShell
Following a bit of a theme here. I did some exploring on scenarios related to using the GPO Reporting Pak PowerShell cmdlets to automate some GP troubleshooting. This video talks about searching through the output of your report inside the PowerShell pipeline. This...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 3, 2016 | Desired State Configuration, Freeware, General Stuff, GP Troubleshooting, GPOGUY.COM, Group Policy Automation, Group Policy Blog, PowerShell, registry policy, sdm software, Tips & Tricks, Videos
Group Policy Objects (GPOs) can contain many different kinds of settings. Much of that data is simple registry data. Finding registry settings in GPOs and handling them is not the simplest of tasks and requires some PowerShell. Microsoft has provided some cmdlets for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 8, 2015 | Desired State Configuration, GP Troubleshooting, Group Policy, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, registry policy
Group Policy has been a bit of a comfort for many of us for the past 15 years. It is a technology that is full of promise and capability. It is sufficiently complex, and incredibly powerful. As PowerShell has evolved to embrace configuration with Desired State...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 15, 2015 | GP Troubleshooting, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Reporting, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks
Troubleshooting is a bit of an art form. It requires creativity but that creativity needs to be expressed inside certain parameters. Those parameters depend on what is being troubleshot. (Is that really a word?) There is a TechNet article that has been around for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 8, 2015 | AD, Desired State Configuration, GP Troubleshooting, GPMC, Group Policy, PowerShell, sdm software, Security Policy
Hi everyone! I hope you are well and you all had a great summer. I have to admit I’m torn, not quite enough Summer for me (or my kids) but I’m extremely excited to get back into a rhythm and get cranking on some great work this year. We have an amazing...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 17, 2015 | GP Troubleshooting
What would you say if I told that it was possible to accidentally write changes up to domain-based GPOs by simply making local security policy changes on your Domain Controllers? I was emailed recently by a fellow techie, who was seeing some odd behavior at a site...
