by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 7, 2012 | General Stuff, GP Troubleshooting, Group Policy, Server 2012, Windows 8
Hi Folks. Just a quick note to let you know that I just posted a little article on the Microsoft MSDN blog site with a review of the big changes for Group Policy in Windows Server 2012 (and Windows 8). Hopefully it provides some useful insight into what is coming for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 29, 2012 | GPMC, Group Policy, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell
Thanks to a thread on our GPOGUY.COM GPTalk Mailing list, I decided it was time to crack open our GPMC PowerShell module and make a couple of updates. The most significant of these is two new cmdlets: Get-SDMGPOOwner Set-SDMGPOOwner As the name implies, these two...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 24, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy, sdm software
Here at SDM Software, we’re all about Group Policy, and enabling our customers to get more out of this great technology. To that end, we’re starting a weekly webinar series where you can listen to me talk about and demo our GPO Reporting Pak...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 24, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Windows 8, Windows Intune, Windows RT
As you’ve probably heard, Microsoft new Windows RT (ARM-based) platform will be shipping soon (Microsoft’s own Surface will be the first incarnation of this), along with Windows 8 itself. And while I think Windows 8 will be a good touch platform...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 16, 2012 | Bugs, Folder Redirection, Group Policy
One of the members of my gptalk mailing list posted this very informative email today regarding some issues he encountered with Folder Redirection. I figured it was worthwhile to re-post it here for everyone’s benefit. Hope everyone finds it useful! ...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 19, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Tools, registry policy, Security Policy, Tips & Tricks
A recent thread on Mark Minasi’s forum site reminded me of a topic that comes up every once in a while–namely, how do you cleanly remove Group Policy settings from a machine that has been removed from an AD domain. The answer is to avoid the problem in the...
