Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
Understanding Group Policy Caching in Windows 8.1
The other day I tweeted about an article posted on the Microsoft TechNet site, that gave a brief overview of the new Group Policy features coming in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012, R2. One of the items mentioned in the article, albeit briefly, was a new "Group...
Group Policy Attestation and tackling GPO bloat
We released a new product last month called Group Policy Auditing & Attestation (GPAA), which provides Group Policy change auditing, rollback, and a cool feature called "GPO Attestation". If you work for a company that is regulated by one of the various government...
Group Policy Change Auditing and Attestation from SDM Software
A couple of weeks ago at Microsoft's TechEd North America conference, we (SDM Software) exhibited at the Tech Expo there, showing off both our existing products, like GPO Exporter and GPO Compare, as well as our brand-new offering: Group Policy Auditing and...
Desired State Configuration in Windows 8.1 and Group Policy
On Monday, here at TechEd North America, Microsoft took the wraps off of some new technology that will be shipping when Windows 8.1 is released later this year. I had had a preview of this technology a few weeks ago and was happy to see it finally made public. At the...
Group Policy at TechEd 2013
Hi folks. Just a quick note about next week's Microsoft TechEd North America conference in New Orleans. If you plan to be at the show and are looking for Group Policy sessions, you will be surprised, as I was, to learn that NO Group Policy sessions are being offered...
Slow Boot/Slow Logon, Group Policy and SDM Software
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...
Join Me on the Powerscripting Podcast!
This coming Thursday night, May 9th, I'll be interviewed live on the PowerScripting Podcast, hosted by PowerShell gurus Hal Rottenberg and Jonathan Walz. Tune in at 9:30PM Eastern Daylight Time to catch the live show, or catch the recorded version after the fact. It's...
My Private Cloud Success Tips From TechDays San Francisco
Today I had the pleasure of presenting at the TechDays conference in San Francisco. I presented on a topic other than Group Policy! And it was fun. I gave a talk entitled, "10 Tips for Success with Private Cloud", based on my experiences working with customers on...
Evaluating OU Membership Using 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, based...
Getting Group Policy Help on GPOGUY.COM
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. While this...