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Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)

What’s Next If You’re An AGPM User?

Hi everyone. You may have heard by now that Microsoft's venerable Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) tool will reach it's end of life next April 2026. What does this mean? When software reaches end of life it generally means that the vendor will no longer provide...

Managing Windows Services using Group Policy

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 Settings\Security Settings\System...

SwiftSlicer Malware and Group Policy

You may have caught the recent article about a new malware variant, called SwiftSlicer--attributed to a Russian APT group--that is making its way around Active Directory environments. There's not a ton of details about how this malware is delivered, but the one detail...

Removing Orphaned Delegation on GPOs

One of the annoying things about Group Policy, is that delegations to GPOs are not cleaned up when the underlying security principal (e.g. user, computer or group) is deleted in Active Directory. For example, if you create a security filter on a GPO for a particular...

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