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 (http://scituated.blogspot.com) that walks through GP Comments and how to manage them. It points back to SDM Software...
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)...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 25, 2013 | Desired State Configuration, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Server 2012, Windows 8.1
If you haven’t read my most recent post on Desired State Configuration (DSC)–the new feature coming with the Windows Management Framework v4 (i.e. PowerShell v4, which will ship in the box in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012-R2) then I encourage you to...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 3, 2013 | Group Policy, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8.1
The other day I tweeted about an article posted on the Microsoft TechNet site, that gave a brief overview of the new Group Policy features coming in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012, R2. One of the items mentioned in the article, albeit briefly, was a new...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 5, 2013 | Desired State Configuration, Group Policy, Microsoft-Related, MSTeched, PowerShell
On Monday, here at TechEd North America, Microsoft took the wraps off of some new technology that will be shipping when Windows 8.1 is released later this year. I had had a preview of this technology a few weeks ago and was happy to see it finally made public. At the...
