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 | Oct 19, 2015 | General Stuff, Group Policy Management, PowerShell, sdm software, SQL CE
While working through a challenge I stumbled through a few interesting items that are worth jotting down. I’ve used both of these constructs before but I had to re-search for some assistance. This created the realization that I need the answers closer at hand,...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 16, 2015 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software
Hello everyone! I posted a quick video on polviewer.exe. The tool called ‘Registry.pol Reader’ is a free tool Darren Mar-Elia built to solve a pretty important issue. And because he’s a great guy, there is that! The need for the tool is pretty...
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 | Jul 31, 2015 | AD, General Stuff, GPO Attestation, Group Policy, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Management
Do you place ‘comments’ on your GPOs? Did you ever wonder how to manage these, or how they may be useful. I put up a quick post on my blog (http://scituated.blogspot.com) that walks through GP Comments and how to manage them. It points back to SDM Software...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 25, 2013 | Desired State Configuration, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Server 2012, Windows 8.1
If you haven’t read my most recent post on Desired State Configuration (DSC)–the new feature coming with the Windows Management Framework v4 (i.e. PowerShell v4, which will ship in the box in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012-R2) then I encourage you to...
