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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 27, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
Whenever a new Windows OS ships, there’s always the inevitable period of discovery–especially for us Group Policy geeks–where we learn about all the new settings that come in GP, and how or whether we can control new OS features using Group Policy....
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 13, 2012 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management
Last Tuesday, I gave a talk locally in San Francisco at the Pacific IT Pros monthly meeting, on “Best Practices for Group Policy Design”. It was largely based on the talk I gave at TechEd 2012 this past June, related to how to make good decisions around...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 18, 2012 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, IE Policy, Tips & Tricks
A recent thread on the GPOGUY.COM GPTalk Mailing list prompted me to write about managing IE settings using Group Policy. In an article I wrote for Windows IT Pro Magazine in 2011, I talked about the various technologies in Group Policy that you can use to manage IE...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 1, 2012 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, Microsoft-Related
I was reading Paul Thurrott’s most recent column on the Windows IT Pro Magazine website today. The column ostensibly talked about naming of features and products in Windows 8, but at the bottom, was this interesting tidbit, “Blurring the lines in a way...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 17, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, MMS 2012
We’re here at MMS 2012 in Las Vegas this week (see a picture of our booth attached to this post!) talking to customers about their Group Policy needs. A couple of interesting themes emerged. One is kind of humorous. More often than not, when someone walked by...
