by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 13, 2012 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management
Last Tuesday, I gave a talk locally in San Francisco at the Pacific IT Pros monthly meeting, on “Best Practices for Group Policy Design”. It was largely based on the talk I gave at TechEd 2012 this past June, related to how to make good decisions around...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 3, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Reporting, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software
It’s often the case in software that there’s more stuff that you want to do in a product than you have time for in a given release. That was the case with our recent release of GPO Exporter — 1.6. There were a number of things that didn’t make...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 30, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software, Tips & Tricks, Videos
This week we’ll be releasing an minor update to our GPO Exporter product. One of the cool things that we’re adding to this release is the ability to generate GPO settings snapshots using PowerShell. The GUI version of the product already includes the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 29, 2012 | Cool New Products, Freeware, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software, Tips & Tricks
Way back in 2006 when I started SDM Software as THE Group Policy solutions company, our first product release was a little GUI utility called GP Health Reporter. We stopped selling it a few years back but I decided to bring it back as freeware, and am happy to...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 17, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools
Today we here at SDM Software were notified that our Group Policy Automation Engine product won the WindowSecurity.com Readers’ Choice Award — 2nd runner up for Group Policy Management products! This goes along with this product’s 2009 Windows IT...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 14, 2012 | Group Policy Management, IE Maintenance Policy, Windows 8
Fellow Group Policy MVP Alan Burchill brought this topic up on our GP MVP mailing list and I had to look into it. He pointed out that in the release candidate for Server 2012/Windows 8, the IE Maintenance Policy node can no longer be found within GP Editor, as shown...
