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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 8, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Preferences
I recently had a good conversation with a fellow Group Policy MVP about the difference between policies and preferences (i.e. Group Policy Preferences). He asserted that with preferences, the “user can work around the settings (generally.)”. This got me...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 29, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy
Just a quick reminder to let folks know that I’ll be on the Talk Technet Episode tomrrow (Mar-30) morning at 9am (GMT-8) to take questions on Group Policy. Hope you can join me! Register here:...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 4, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy
If you aren’t already following my twitter feed (@grouppolicyguy) then here’s a new reason to do so. I’m posting quick Group Policy “Tips of the Day” on Twitter, for as long as I can think of them :-). Check them out and let me know what...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 29, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy
Someone asked me recently what I thought of using Deny ACEs on GPOs for security group filtering. First, a little background. As you probably know, you can control which users and computers will process a particular GPO by using security filtering on that GPO. The...
