by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 19, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software
It’s often the case in larger Group Policy environments, that over time you collect so many GPOs, that you no longer know what all of them do or what’s contained within them. If you’re in the process of trying to cleanup or streamline your GPOs, then...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 20, 2012 | Cool New Products, GPO Compare, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Reporting, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software
Just wanted to drop a quick note to let folks know that we just shipped version 2.6 of GPO Compare! This is an incremental update but it includes some key new features, including support in our GPO Compare PowerShell cmdlet for comparing GPO Exporter snapshots. This...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 31, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software
Windows IT Pro Magazine is holding their annual Community Choice Awards for IT products. SDM Software has three products nominated this year, as follows: Best Active Directory & Group Policy Product SDM Software GPO Reporting Pak SDM Software Group Policy...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 27, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
Whenever a new Windows OS ships, there’s always the inevitable period of discovery–especially for us Group Policy geeks–where we learn about all the new settings that come in GP, and how or whether we can control new OS features using Group Policy....
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 20, 2012 | GPMC, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
Now that Windows 8 is out (or almost out), the inevitable questions will arise about introducing it into your Group Policy Management world. As with previous versions of Windows, the approach with Windows 8 (and Server 2012) will be similar. Since Windows 8 and Server...
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...
