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 (https://scituated.blogspot.com) that walks through GP Comments and how to manage them. It points back to SDM...
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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 1, 2013 | Group Policy Management, IE Maintenance Policy, IE Policy, Microsoft-Related
Thanks to fellow Group Policy MVP Alan Burchill for warning about this–apparently if you install Internet Explorer 10 on your Windows 7 workstation, and you also happen to manage Group Policy from that machine, the IE 10 installation removes the option to edit...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 8, 2013 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell
Just a quick note to share a great site that I stumbled upon today (not sure how I hadn’t seen it sooner). It’s a Microsoft TechNet site up on their Scripting Center, that lists a bunch of user-provided PowerShell scripts for managing Group Policy, ...
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...
