by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 24, 2011 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools
Anyone that manages Group Policy probably knows about the gpupdate.exe utility that ships with Windows. GPUpdate’s job in life is to refresh Group Policy manually, rather than relying on Windows to do it on it’s own schedule. This can be a useful...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 8, 2011 | Cool New Products, Group Policy
Just a quick note before the weekend starts to let folks know I updated the GPOGUY.COM WMI Filter Test Utility to include timing information (see below). Specifically, this lets you see how long a given WMI filter took to evaluate on the target system, so you can see...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 28, 2011 | Group Policy
Recently a fellow Group Policy MVP asked about whether it was possible to control the order of Client-Side Extension (CSE) processing in Group Policy. The CSEs are the DLLs that do the real work of policy processing in GP. They reside on all Windows client machines...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 8, 2011 | GPMC, Group Policy, PowerShell
Sometimes I’m reminded that, even though Microsoft has been shipping their Group Policy PowerShell module for a while now, it is missing some key functionality. Fortunately, it took someone else asking me a question about how they could script something in...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 12, 2011 | Group Policy, VDI
If you’re going to be at TechEd North America next week, stop by and say hello. I’ll be manning the Microsoft Windows 7 & MDOP booth on Tue morning and then presenting on Group Policy and VDI on Thursday afternoon. That session will cover some of the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 29, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy
Just a quick reminder to let folks know that I’ll be on the Talk Technet Episode tomrrow (Mar-30) morning at 9am (GMT-8) to take questions on Group Policy. Hope you can join me! Register here:...
