by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 20, 2015 | AD, Azure, Cloud, Cool New Products, Group Policy
Darren Mar-Elia was kind enough to take some time to walk through and share his thoughts on the Azure AD Domain Services. Microsoft recently released a preview and Darren jumped right in there picking it apart and helping us make sense out of the new capabilities....
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 16, 2015 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software
Hello everyone! I posted a quick video on polviewer.exe. The tool called ‘Registry.pol Reader’ is a free tool Darren Mar-Elia built to solve a pretty important issue. And because he’s a great guy, there is that! The need for the tool is pretty...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 8, 2015 | AD, Desired State Configuration, GP Troubleshooting, GPMC, Group Policy, PowerShell, sdm software, Security Policy
Hi everyone! I hope you are well and you all had a great summer. I have to admit I’m torn, not quite enough Summer for me (or my kids) but I’m extremely excited to get back into a rhythm and get cranking on some great work this year. We have an amazing...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 31, 2015 | AD, General Stuff, GPO Attestation, Group Policy, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Management
Do you place ‘comments’ on your GPOs? Did you ever wonder how to manage these, or how they may be useful. I put up a quick post on my blog (https://scituated.blogspot.com) that walks through GP Comments and how to manage them. It points back to SDM...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 26, 2013 | Desired State Configuration, Group Policy, PowerShell
If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’ve become a big fan of the new Desired State Configuration feature in Windows Management Framework 4 (i.e. PowerShell 4). It makes configuring Windows Servers a snap and provides a whole new set of configuration...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 11, 2013 | Group Policy, Group Policy Design, sdm software, Tips & Tricks
A fair bit of what we do here at SDM Software is helping folks get a handle on their Group Policy environments. Using products such as our GPO Reporting Pak, we’ve had lots of customers clean up and reduce the clutter (not to mention improve desktop performance)...
