by Kevin Sullivan | Apr 23, 2026 | Cloud, General, PowerShell
Check the beginning of the story here. By 2005, things were changing quickly. DesktopStandard was acquired by Microsoft, and I went from watching the future unfold from the outside to helping build it from the inside. Walking into Microsoft felt like stepping onto a...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 19, 2017 | Group Policy Automation, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software
PowerShell has increased in popularity quite a bit over the past few years. I recall my initial reaction to Jeffrey Snover’s ‘Monad Manifesto’ that was published back in 2002 or so. It was quite revolutionary. Over the years it has been exciting to...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 9, 2017 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Compliance, Group Policy News, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software
Getting Started It is great to have this update to Group Policy Compliance Manager. Some great features to provide for management at scale, some nice refinements and fixes. Overall the system is running great and the ability to get up and running is quick and...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 21, 2016 | General Stuff, Group Policy Automation, PowerShell
Fans of PowerShell We are all fans right? We have been for a while. PowerShell is one of those things that the more you learn, the more you explore, the more you play, the more you appreciate what it has to offer. Some very simple things can prove to be very exciting....
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 15, 2016 | Group Policy Automation, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Reporting, PowerShell, sdm software
Part II of our GPO Impact Analysis. For the purpose of this post the primary capability of Export-SDMGPSettings is to grab a ‘snapshot’ of all of the settings managed in a set of GPOs. Export-SDMGPSettings is one of the core cmdlets that make up the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 8, 2016 | GP Troubleshooting, Group Policy, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Reporting, PowerShell, sdm software
One of the many scenarios that organizations contend with is impact analysis. For SDM Software this is about configuration and most importantly security configuration. For example, what happens if you go into Active Directory Users and Computers and move Server1 from...
