by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 24, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Preferences, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
Recently I’ve had some conversations with folks that related to their irritation that “legacy” Group Policy settings such as Admin. Templates, Security Settings, Software Installation, etc. could not benefit from the fine-grained...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 8, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Preferences
I recently had a good conversation with a fellow Group Policy MVP about the difference between policies and preferences (i.e. Group Policy Preferences). He asserted that with preferences, the “user can work around the settings (generally.)”. This got me...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 22, 2010 | Cool New Products, Group Policy, Group Policy Preferences, PowerShell
This is my 2nd blog post around using the PowerShell features in the two products of SDM Software’s GPO Reporting Pak. In this post, I’ll talk about the GPO Exporter product, which, as the name implies, lets you export Group Policy settings. The cool thing...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 1, 2010 | Group Policy Preferences, Security-related
Recently someone asked if it was possible to disable the print screen functionality on their keyboard through Group Policy. My initial response was that I had never seen a policy setting to do this, and indeed I figured that you would need to do some low level...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 23, 2010 | General Stuff, Group Policy Preferences, Security-related
Microsoft recently announced a new security vulnerability in Windows shortcuts that affects all versions of Windows since XP! Its references here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2286198. This particular vulnerability takes advantage of the icon that appears in...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 22, 2010 | Group Policy Preferences, Security-related
Well, I’ve been crazy busy working on some new product releases but I wanted to take a moment to blog about some useful features in GP Preferences that often slip through the cracks. I saw a blog post today about how you could use a custom ADM file to remove...
