by Darren Mar-Elia | May 24, 2013 | Group Policy Design, Group Policy Performance, Tips & Tricks, whitepapers
Just a quick note to let folks know that, in case you missed it, the Group Policy product team at Microsoft posted a nice blog entry discussing Group Policy design decisions that can impact Windows boot and logon times. And, most cool for us, they referenced our...
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 | Dec 18, 2012 | Group Policy Performance, Group Policy Preferences, Group Policy Reporting, Tips & Tricks
In my previous blog post, I wrote about some new reporting we’ll be providing in version 2.0 of our GPO Exporter product. One of the reports in that new version identifies GPOs that contain “expensive” Group Policy Preferences Item-Level Targeting...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 14, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Performance, Group Policy Reporting, Group Policy Tools, sdm software, Windows 8
If you’ve followed my blog postings and articles recently, you know that I’ve been speaking and writing on decisions that you can make in your Group Policy design that impact GP processing performance, and often, perceived desktop performance by the end...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 23, 2012 | Group Policy Design, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Performance, Tips & Tricks
Just a quick FYI to let folks know that my latest article for Windows IT Pro Magazine is now posted on their website. In this article, I cover some of the fundamental issues around AD design as it relates to Group Policy, as well as talk about performance-related...
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...
