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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 8, 2014 | Cool New Products, PowerShell
Hey PowerShell and Group Policy Fans! If you want to script group policy changes, life just got easier! I’m pleased to announce that today we shipped a major upgrade to our GP Automation Engine product–version 3.0. For those of you who don’t know...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 5, 2013 | PowerShell, Tips & Tricks
Recently, as part of one of our Group Policy consulting engagements, we recommended to a customer to adopt a consistent GPO naming standard. This kind of standard makes the function and purpose of a GPO more clear and eases discovery of a Group Policy environment. As...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 26, 2013 | Desired State Configuration, Group Policy, PowerShell
If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’ve become a big fan of the new Desired State Configuration feature in Windows Management Framework 4 (i.e. PowerShell 4). It makes configuring Windows Servers a snap and provides a whole new set of configuration...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 5, 2013 | Desired State Configuration, Group Policy, Microsoft-Related, MSTeched, PowerShell
On Monday, here at TechEd North America, Microsoft took the wraps off of some new technology that will be shipping when Windows 8.1 is released later this year. I had had a preview of this technology a few weeks ago and was happy to see it finally made public. At the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 7, 2013 | PowerShell, sdm software
This coming Thursday night, May 9th, I’ll be interviewed live on the PowerScripting Podcast, hosted by PowerShell gurus Hal Rottenberg and Jonathan Walz. Tune in at 9:30PM Eastern Daylight Time to catch the live show, or catch the recorded version after the...
