Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
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...
Detecting Group Policy Changes and Drift Using SDM Software’s Reporting Pak
In this video, SDM Software (www.sdmsoftware.com) CTO & Founder Darren Mar-Elia shows how you can use the GPO Reporting Pak--composed of GPO Compare and Exporter, to detect changes within a Group Policy environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E3xKBDzYXQ...
Come Visit SDM Software at TechEd North America!
I'm happy to announce that SDM Software will be exhibiting for the first time at TechEd North America, this coming June 3rd through the 6th in New Orleans! It should be easy to find us as we are going to be in Booth #2222! So if you are thinking about going to...
WARNING: Installing IE 10 on your Windows 7 Workstation Removes IE Maintenance Policy from Group Policy
Thanks to fellow Group Policy MVP Alan Burchill for warning about this--apparently if you install Internet Explorer 10 on your Windows 7 workstation, and you also happen to manage Group Policy from that machine, the IE 10 installation removes the option to edit IE...
Using GPUpdate /Sync to Your Benefit [VIDEO]
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 refresh...