by Kevin Sullivan | Dec 11, 2025 | Cloud, General Stuff, Microsoft-Related
Microsoft recently announced plans to include Intune Suite capabilities in Microsoft 365 E3 and E5 licenses. This is really big news that customers have been asking for and about since the Intune Suite was announced a few years ago. It is a statement that the company...
by Kevin Sullivan | Nov 18, 2025 | Active Directory, General Stuff
There is a reason why many Active Directory admins still use the GUI: it is simple and straightforward. On the other hand, scripts allow us to automate and scale AD tasks, which is also beneficial for admins. A classic example of this duality is working with dates...
by Michael Johnson | Apr 2, 2025 | General Stuff
Hi everyone. You may have heard by now that Microsoft’s venerable Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) tool will reach it’s end of life next April 2026. What does this mean? When software reaches the end of life, it generally means that the vendor will...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 13, 2022 | General Stuff
One of the annoying things about Group Policy, is that delegations to GPOs are not cleaned up when the underlying security principal (e.g. user, computer or group) is deleted in Active Directory. For example, if you create a security filter on a GPO for a particular...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 26, 2021 | General Stuff
A question came up on Twitter the other day related to how Group Policy behaves on a given client, when you move either the computer or user account in Active Directory. As we know, the Group Policy that applies to a computer or user is a function of what GPOs are...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 15, 2019 | General Stuff, Security-related
The title of this blog tells it all. I got asked the question–what happens to GP processing when a client machine isn’t on the network and can’t connect to it’s domain Domain Controllers (DCs)? Does policy get removed? Does it just stay where...
