Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
The Word on the Street–Group Policy Cleanup and Consolidation
We're here at MMS 2012 in Las Vegas this week (see a picture of our booth attached to this post!) talking to customers about their Group Policy needs. A couple of interesting themes emerged. One is kind of humorous. More often than not, when someone walked by and we...
Group Policy Health PowerShell Cmdlet Updated!
Just a quick note that I finally got around to updating our freeware Group Policy Health Cmdlet to add module support for PowerShell v2. Hopefully this makes the cmdlet more discoverable for those of you using it in PowerShell v2 (probably everybody!). The module name...
Group Policy Consolidation and Optimization just got a lot easier! GPO Exporter 1.5 Ships!
I'm proud to announce that today we released GPO Exporter 1.5. This new release represents a huge step up in the arsenal of tools for analyzing and optimizing Group Policy deployments. I can't tell you how many IT folks come to me and ask how they can streamline and...
Come Visit SDM Software at the Microsoft Management Summit!
SDM Software will be exhibiting at this year's upcoming Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) on April 16-19th in Las Vegas! If you're attending MMS or are thinking about it, come on by our booth (#129) on the exhibit floor Monday-Thursday. We'll be demo-ing some cool...
Automating Group Policy Preferences Drive Mapping with PowerShell [VIDEO]
One of the cool things I like about our Group Policy Automation Engine product is the scenarios that it's open up by providing what is essentially an automation portal into GPOs. One of those key scenarios is the ability to automate additions and changes to Group...
New Group Policy Freeware Utility Finds GPOs with Deny ACE
One of the challenges of the GPMC's reporting is that it is not easy to find GPOs that have had Deny ACEs (Access Control Entries) set on their delegation. Deny ACEs are typically used to deny a particular user, computer or group from applying a GPO. I always...
GPO Compare 2.5 (New) Demo | Group Policy Management [Video]
Today we released an updated version of our widely used GPO Compare product. The 2.5 release brings some cool new features and improvements over 2.0, including: Ability to now compare up to 4 GPOs or GPO backups, for comparing GPOs or backups against a baseline GPO...
Have a Group Policy New Year from SDM Software!!
Well, 2011 is almost over, and it's a been a great year for SDM Software. We achieved record revenue results this year--smashing last year's total by over 300%-- and have over 150 customers to thank for our continued success. This is in addition to the 100os of folks...
Digging Into Group Policy WMI Filters and Managing them through PowerShell
WMI Filters have been available as a mechanism for filtering the effects of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) since Server 2003 & XP shipped. They are a valuable tool in your Group Policy Management arsenal. As the name implies, WMI filters allow you to filter the...
Comparing GPOs to a Baseline Using GPO Compare
One of the cool things about our GPO Compare product is it's support for PowerShell. The product ships with a PowerShell cmdlet called Compare-SDMGPO that lets you compare live and backed-up GPOs--just like the GUI. We can use this capability to automate the...