by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 8, 2014 | Group Policy Tools
It seems like a logical thing to be able to do–you have a bunch of GPOs and you want to search for settings across them. In fact, it turns out to be a fair bit of work with native tools. It’s true that Microsoft has provided, for a while now, an...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 20, 2013 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Change Auditing, Group Policy Tools
A couple of weeks ago at Microsoft’s TechEd North America conference, we (SDM Software) exhibited at the Tech Expo there, showing off both our existing products, like GPO Exporter and GPO Compare, as well as our brand-new offering: Group Policy Auditing and...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 21, 2013 | Freeware, Group Policy Tools, Tips & Tricks, Videos
In a previous blog posting, I talked about the gpupdate command-line utility for forcing a GP refresh on a local system. I briefly mentioned the /sync parameter, which doesn’t actually do a GP refresh at all, but instead, just marks the next foreground GP...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 8, 2013 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell
Just a quick note to share a great site that I stumbled upon today (not sure how I hadn’t seen it sooner). It’s a Microsoft TechNet site up on their Scripting Center, that lists a bunch of user-provided PowerShell scripts for managing Group Policy, ...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 7, 2013 | Bugs, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, RSOP, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
In recent days, I’ve become aware of a couple of interesting “features” around Group Policy in Windows 8. Both were reported by other users and I confirmed their behavior on my own. The first issue, which I would categorize as a bug, is the...
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...
