by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 7, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software, Tips & Tricks
One of the challenges any reasonable-sized IT shop has around Group Policy is the need to be able to find and discover all the settings that have been deployed. Something as simple as searching for one or more settings across all settings is pretty tough to do in the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 22, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software
This video describes the concept of “GPO Sprawl”, how it impacts you and how you can help clean up your Group Policy environment using GPO Exporter 1.5.
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 15, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, MMS 2012, PowerShell, sdm software
Just a quick note that I finally got around to updating our freeware Group Policy Health Cmdlet to add module support for PowerShell v2. Hopefully this makes the cmdlet more discoverable for those of you using it in PowerShell v2 (probably everybody!). The module name...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 5, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software
I’m proud to announce that today we released GPO Exporter 1.5. This new release represents a huge step up in the arsenal of tools for analyzing and optimizing Group Policy deployments. I can’t tell you how many IT folks come to me and ask how they can ...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 26, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Management, MMS 2012, sdm software
SDM Software will be exhibiting at this year’s upcoming Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) on April 16-19th in Las Vegas! If you’re attending MMS or are thinking about it, come on by our booth (#129) on the exhibit floor Monday-Thursday. We’ll be...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 26, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software, Tips & Tricks, Videos
One of the cool things I like about our Group Policy Automation Engine product is the scenarios that it’s open up by providing what is essentially an automation portal into GPOs. One of those key scenarios is the ability to automate additions and changes to...
