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...
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...