by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 3, 2016 | Desired State Configuration, Freeware, General Stuff, GP Troubleshooting, GPOGUY.COM, Group Policy Automation, Group Policy Blog, PowerShell, registry policy, sdm software, Tips & Tricks, Videos
Group Policy Objects (GPOs) can contain many different kinds of settings. Much of that data is simple registry data. Finding registry settings in GPOs and handling them is not the simplest of tasks and requires some PowerShell. Microsoft has provided some cmdlets for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 14, 2015 | Azure, General Stuff, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks
I was needing to test something on an unpatched 2008 R2 box and in my Azure lab the subnet that machine was pointed to was all full up! So, how to fix it? Of course PowerShell to the rescue. I wrote up a quick walkthrough of what I did to move the machine. Check it...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 15, 2015 | GP Troubleshooting, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Reporting, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks
Troubleshooting is a bit of an art form. It requires creativity but that creativity needs to be expressed inside certain parameters. Those parameters depend on what is being troubleshot. (Is that really a word?) There is a TechNet article that has been around for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 13, 2015 | Tips & Tricks
If you caught the webinar last week that Kevin Sullivan and I presented, you might have caught the “secret tip” I presented at the end of the show (you can catch the whole webinar recording here). In there, I promised to more fully document this tip, so...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 11, 2015 | Tips & Tricks
Recently I’ve been answering a few questions about the role of ADMX files (Administrative Templates) in Group Policy. For those who are new to Group Policy or haven’t spent a lot of time with it, I have seen some misunderstanding around what these template...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 23, 2015 | Tips & Tricks
Just the other day I was talking to a customer about Group Policy loopback. If you’ll recall, loopback is that feature in Group Policy processing that allows you to override a user’s *normal* user policy settings when they log into specific...
