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 | Jan 12, 2016 | Group Policy Automation, Group Policy Blog, PowerShell, sdm software
Why a PowerShell Advanced Function This is a bit of a stream of conscious follow-up to a previous post related to managing Deployed Printers with the Group Policy Automation Engine. I decided today, while working with someone, that porting this to an Advanced Function...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 11, 2016 | Group Policy Automation, Group Policy Blog, PowerShell, Videos
The SDM Group Policy Automation Engine provides a PowerShell interface for getting and setting configuration in Group Policy Objects (GPOs). We utilize a single cmdlet called Get-SDMGPObject. This single cmdlet provides all the secret sauce that makes the magic...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 10, 2015 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Automation, PowerShell
Just a quick tip. I found this a bit too cool not to share. I was working in the PowerShell ISE building up a demo script for our Group Policy Automation Engine. If you are not familiar with it you should be! Anyway, as I built it up I used some variable names that...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 28, 2014 | Group Policy Automation, IE Policy, PowerShell
Over this last weekend, Microsoft published warnings of yet another zero-day “memory corruption” Internet Explorer vulnerability to all versions of the venerable browser . Since there is no current patch for this yet, IT administrators are left to mitigate...
