by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 29, 2009 | Group Policy Preferences
I was playing around with some scenarios related to "item-level targeting" (ILT) in Group Policy Preferences and was reminded of a significant limitation in this newer as it relates to Resultant Set of Policy reporting. What I was doing was creating a...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 26, 2009 | Group Policy Preferences
In a recent posting on the Activedir.org mailing list, I happened to mention that we’re getting ready to release v. 2.0 of our GPExpert(r) Scripting Toolkit. The Toolkit is actually getting a new name, but I won’t spoil the surprise for now. However, the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 12, 2009 | Group Policy Preferences
So, the other day I was trading some email with a friend and mentioned that I was working on a nifty little utility to allow someone to import the contents of a .reg file into Group Policy Preferences registry extensions using the command-line. He commented that it...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 4, 2008 | Group Policy Preferences
I’ve seen a lot of interest in Group Policy Preferences since its release, and a lot of confusion about whether you can use it if you don’t have Windows Server 2008 in your environment (you can!) so I thought it would be useful to create a quick whitepaper...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 28, 2008 | Group Policy Preferences
I frequently find that a lot of folks have not yet discovered all of the cool new Group Policy management features that Group Policy Preferences brings to Windows. As a result, I thought it would be worthwhile to do a couple of blog items about some of these features....
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 30, 2008 | Group Policy Preferences
I have heard a lot of questions about the need to install the pre-requisite XMLLite package on XP and Server 2003 prior to installing the Group Policy Preferences Client Side Extensions to those versions of Windows. The fact is that XMLLite is currently not...