by Darren Mar-Elia | May 19, 2014 | Group Policy Preferences
For those of you following this issue, which I blogged about previously, you’ll know that several areas within Group Policy Preferences allowed for defining of passwords that were stored with the GPO settings storage in SYSVOL. These passwords were stored using...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 21, 2014 | Group Policy Preferences, IE Policy, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
An astute reader of this blog brought an interesting scenario to my attention, and I spent some time confirming it. For those of you running Windows 8 (or 8.1) there’s a neat “feature” that allows your users to circumvent controls you put in place...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 12, 2013 | Group Policy Preferences, IE Policy
[animate animation=”fadeIn” delay=”0″ duration=”2s” iterations=”1″]Get The Most Complete Group Policy Change Auditing Solution![/animate] With IE 11 now generally available for Windows 7 and newer versions, the obvious...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 5, 2013 | Group Policy Preferences, Tips & Tricks
One of the cool features within Group Policy Preferences, is the ability to use environment variables instead of static values, within any number of policy areas. For example, you can use the Files GP Preferences area to copy files from one location to another. In...
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 | Jul 29, 2012 | Group Policy Preferences, IE Maintenance Policy, Windows 8
As I blogged a few days back, Microsoft has deprecated (or removed) IE Maintenance Policy in Windows 8/Server 2012. And while I think this is a generally good thing, some folks may be wondering how they’re going to configure IE going forward. Well, Microsoft has...
