by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 14, 2016 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Automation, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, Uncategorized, Videos
As you may have heard last week, or seen in our newsletter, or read graffiti’d all over the New York subway system, our Group Policy Automation Engine (GPAE) has added support to help organizations manage their Unix systems with Group Policy! OK, maybe that is a...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 3, 2016 | Desired State Configuration, Freeware, General Stuff, GP Troubleshooting, GPOGUY.COM, Group Policy Automation, Group Policy Blog, PowerShell, registry policy, sdm software, Tips & Tricks, Videos
Group Policy Objects (GPOs) can contain many different kinds of settings. Much of that data is simple registry data. Finding registry settings in GPOs and handling them is not the simplest of tasks and requires some PowerShell. Microsoft has provided some cmdlets for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 11, 2016 | Group Policy Automation, Group Policy Blog, PowerShell, Videos
The SDM Group Policy Automation Engine provides a PowerShell interface for getting and setting configuration in Group Policy Objects (GPOs). We utilize a single cmdlet called Get-SDMGPObject. This single cmdlet provides all the secret sauce that makes the magic...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 18, 2013 | Videos
In this video, SDM Software (www.sdmsoftware.com) CTO & Founder Darren Mar-Elia shows how you can use the GPO Reporting Pak–composed of GPO Compare and Exporter, to detect changes within a Group Policy environment. Video Transcript: Detecting Group Policy...
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 | Jul 30, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software, Tips & Tricks, Videos
This week we’ll be releasing an minor update to our GPO Exporter product. One of the cool things that we’re adding to this release is the ability to generate GPO settings snapshots using PowerShell. The GUI version of the product already includes the...
