by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 30, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, sdm software
Well, 2011 is almost over, and it’s a been a great year for SDM Software. We achieved record revenue results this year–smashing last year’s total by over 300%– and have over 150 customers to thank for our continued success. This is in addition...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 24, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Preferences, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
Recently I’ve had some conversations with folks that related to their irritation that “legacy” Group Policy settings such as Admin. Templates, Security Settings, Software Installation, etc. could not benefit from the fine-grained...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 8, 2011 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management
Someone at Microsoft was kind enough to put together a nice list of all the various ADMX files that Microsoft product groups provide for extending Administrative Templates within Group Policy. Bravo for him doing this work:...
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...
