by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 7, 2013 | Bugs, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, RSOP, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
In recent days, I’ve become aware of a couple of interesting “features” around Group Policy in Windows 8. Both were reported by other users and I confirmed their behavior on my own. The first issue, which I would categorize as a bug, is the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 23, 2013 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Performance, Group Policy Reporting, Group Policy Tools, whitepapers
As I mentioned in a previous post, our new version of GPO Exporter 2.0 includes a set of free reports that help to identify GPOs and GPO designs that can impact desktop boot and logon performance. I also mentioned that we would be creating a whitepaper that explains...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 15, 2013 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Design, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Reporting, Group Policy Tools, sdm software
Today I’m happy to announce that SDM Software has released our 2.0 version of GPO Exporter! I’m really excited about this release because I think it represents a new milestone in an organization’s ability to get insight and add manageability to Group...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 4, 2013 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software
Well, I don’t know about anyone else, but I am hard pressed to understand how another year has come and gone. Here at SDM, we have been non-stop busy delivering awesome new Group Policy Management Tools to you, our customers. 2012 marked another banner year for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 19, 2012 | Event Logs, General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Security Policy
I was trolling around GP Editor in Windows 8 and found a set of Administrative Template settings that I had not seen before. Interestingly, those setting did indeed exist in Windows 7 (and probably Vista) so it was just me missing them. Prior to those OS releases, if...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 19, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
I saw a thread on the Microsoft TechNet forums yesterday that prompted me to write a quick post about this behavior change for the Group Policy client service in Windows 8. In order to live in a world of new Windows 8 devices that use less power or may be on all the...
