by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 26, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software, Tips & Tricks, Videos
One of the cool things I like about our Group Policy Automation Engine product is the scenarios that it’s open up by providing what is essentially an automation portal into GPOs. One of those key scenarios is the ability to automate additions and changes to...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 21, 2012 | Cool New Products, GPMC, GPOGUY.COM, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software
One of the challenges of the GPMC’s reporting is that it is not easy to find GPOs that have had Deny ACEs (Access Control Entries) set on their delegation. Deny ACEs are typically used to deny a particular user, computer or group from applying a GPO. I always...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 6, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, Videos
Today we released an updated version of our widely used GPO Compare product. The 2.5 release brings some cool new features and improvements over 2.0, including: Ability to now compare up to 4 GPOs or GPO backups, for comparing GPOs or backups against a baseline GPO...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 14, 2011 | GPMC, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, WMI Filters
WMI Filters have been available as a mechanism for filtering the effects of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) since Server 2003 & XP shipped. They are a valuable tool in your Group Policy Management arsenal. As the name implies, WMI filters allow you to filter the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 29, 2011 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks
One of the cool things about our GPO Compare product is it’s support for PowerShell. The product ships with a PowerShell cmdlet called Compare-SDMGPO that lets you compare live and backed-up GPOs–just like the GUI. We can use this capability to automate...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 26, 2011 | General Stuff, GPMC, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell
When we created our GPMC PowerShell cmdlets in 2008, they made it easy to get at GPMC functionality within PowerShell v1. When Microsoft shipped Windows 7/2008-R2, they also provided their own set of GPMC-related cmdlets within their GroupPolicy module. At the time I...
