by Darren Mar-Elia | May 24, 2013 | Group Policy Design, Group Policy Performance, Tips & Tricks, whitepapers
Just a quick note to let folks know that, in case you missed it, the Group Policy product team at Microsoft posted a nice blog entry discussing Group Policy design decisions that can impact Windows boot and logon times. And, most cool for us, they referenced our...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 25, 2013 | Tips & Tricks, WMI Filters
I was reading a thread on the Microsoft Group Policy TechNet Forum today. The gist of it was that someone was trying to filter a domain-linked GPO by OU membership–in other words, either prevent or allow computers in a given OU to receive a domain-linked GPO,...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 18, 2013 | GPOGUY.COM, Tips & Tricks
A couple of months ago, we upgraded our partner site–https://gpoguy.com– to a new look and feel. We also converted the venerable GPTalk Listserv-based mailing list, with over 1000 subscribers, to the new GPOGUY GPTalk Forum....
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 21, 2013 | Freeware, Group Policy Tools, Tips & Tricks, Videos
In a previous blog posting, I talked about the gpupdate command-line utility for forcing a GP refresh on a local system. I briefly mentioned the /sync parameter, which doesn’t actually do a GP refresh at all, but instead, just marks the next foreground GP...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 5, 2013 | Group Policy Preferences, Tips & Tricks
One of the cool features within Group Policy Preferences, is the ability to use environment variables instead of static values, within any number of policy areas. For example, you can use the Files GP Preferences area to copy files from one location to another. In...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 7, 2013 | Bugs, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, RSOP, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
In recent days, I’ve become aware of a couple of interesting “features” around Group Policy in Windows 8. Both were reported by other users and I confirmed their behavior on my own. The first issue, which I would categorize as a bug, is the...
