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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 26, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Performance, Tips & Tricks
At the recent TechEd North America talk I gave, entitled, “Best Practices for Group Policy Design with Performance and Security in Mind”, one of the areas I covered was the impact of Client Side Extensions (CSEs) that only run during a synchronous GP...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 18, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Teched 2012
Well, TechEd was great as usual–lots of Win8 info sloshing around as well as Azure everywhere, including the recent announcement that Microsoft will be offering “Infrastructure-as-a-Service” (IaaS) instances in Azure now, ala Amazon EC2. It will be...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 7, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software, Tips & Tricks
One of the challenges any reasonable-sized IT shop has around Group Policy is the need to be able to find and discover all the settings that have been deployed. Something as simple as searching for one or more settings across all settings is pretty tough to do in the...
