by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 9, 2024 | Tips & Tricks
Happy New Year! On Twitter recently (sorry, I can’t bring myself to call it ‘X’) there was a thread about managing Windows Services using GP. The poster talked about using the setting area under Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 5, 2023 | Tips & Tricks
I have to say that after 25 years of messing around with Group Policy, I am constantly amazed by the new things I still learn about the technology and it’s behavior. Especially when those things are substantial and weird. Such was my experience last week when a...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 17, 2018 | Tips & Tricks
Hey Folks. It’s been too long since I posted here, so I thought I’d break my fast by posting something a bit meaty. Many moons ago, I created a whitepaper, which is on the Gpoguy portion of this site, that described how and where the various areas in Group...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 11, 2017 | Tips & Tricks
I recently had someone ask if there was a way to get rid of those pesky “Extra Registry Settings” that sometimes appear in a GPO settings report in GPMC. You know, the ones that look like this: These settings arise...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 20, 2017 | Tips & Tricks
Now that the Windows 10 “Creators Update” is available, Microsoft has made the ADMX files for this new Windows 10 release available for download. As I mentioned in my last blog post, you can no longer guarantee that new ADMX files are backward compatible...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 30, 2017 | Tips & Tricks
Microsoft has recently put out several articles explaining some of the nuances of ADMX files in the new world of Windows-as-a-Service–where new Windows builds come out frequently and often ship with new versions of ADMX templates. I’ve blogged...
