by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 8, 2013 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell
Just a quick note to share a great site that I stumbled upon today (not sure how I hadn’t seen it sooner). It’s a Microsoft TechNet site up on their Scripting Center, that lists a bunch of user-provided PowerShell scripts for managing Group Policy, ...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 30, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
A couple of weeks ago I wrote this post on the MSDN site, reviewing some of the new Group Policy features in Windows 8/Server 2012. One of those features was a new PowerShell cmdlet in the Group Policy PowerShell module called invoke-gpupdate. This cmdlet, as the name...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 29, 2012 | GPMC, Group Policy, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell
Thanks to a thread on our GPOGUY.COM GPTalk Mailing list, I decided it was time to crack open our GPMC PowerShell module and make a couple of updates. The most significant of these is two new cmdlets: Get-SDMGPOOwner Set-SDMGPOOwner As the name implies, these two...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 19, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software
It’s often the case in larger Group Policy environments, that over time you collect so many GPOs, that you no longer know what all of them do or what’s contained within them. If you’re in the process of trying to cleanup or streamline your GPOs, then...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 20, 2012 | Cool New Products, GPO Compare, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Reporting, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software
Just wanted to drop a quick note to let folks know that we just shipped version 2.6 of GPO Compare! This is an incremental update but it includes some key new features, including support in our GPO Compare PowerShell cmdlet for comparing GPO Exporter snapshots. This...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 3, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Reporting, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software
It’s often the case in software that there’s more stuff that you want to do in a product than you have time for in a given release. That was the case with our recent release of GPO Exporter — 1.6. There were a number of things that didn’t make...
