Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
GPO Compare Demonstration
In this video, Darren Mar-Elia, SDM Software's CTO and Founder, demonstrates the SDM Software GPO Compare product, a tool for being able to perform actions such as comparing group policy objects across your Windows enterprise network and creating reports about GPOs....
WMI Filter Test Utility Updated to Include timings
Just a quick note before the weekend starts to let folks know I updated the GPOGUY.COM WMI Filter Test Utility to include timing information (see below). Specifically, this lets you see how long a given WMI filter took to evaluate on the target system, so you can see...
Re-ordering Group Policy Client Side Extensions
Recently a fellow Group Policy MVP asked about whether it was possible to control the order of Client-Side Extension (CSE) processing in Group Policy. The CSEs are the DLLs that do the real work of policy processing in GP. They reside on all Windows client machines...
Retrieving GPO Links with PowerShell
Sometimes I'm reminded that, even though Microsoft has been shipping their Group Policy PowerShell module for a while now, it is missing some key functionality. Fortunately, it took someone else asking me a question about how they could script something in PowerShell...
Visit me at TechEd North America
If you're going to be at TechEd North America next week, stop by and say hello. I'll be manning the Microsoft Windows 7 & MDOP booth on Tue morning and then presenting on Group Policy and VDI on Thursday afternoon. That session will cover some of the things you...
Got Group Policy Questions or Problems? Join me for a Q&A
Just a quick reminder to let folks know that I'll be on the Talk Technet Episode tomrrow (Mar-30) morning at 9am (GMT-8) to take questions on Group Policy. Hope you can join me! Register here:...
Getting Group Policy Counts with PowerShell
Sometimes you want to know how many GPOs you have in a domain. Powershell provides a way to do this quickly and easily. Earlier today I tweeted about the way to do this in Windows 7 or Server 2008-R2, using the Microsoft-provided "GroupPolicy" PowerShell Module. Its...
Group Policy Tip of the Day Tweets!
If you aren't already following my twitter feed (@grouppolicyguy) then here's a new reason to do so. I'm posting quick Group Policy "Tips of the Day" on Twitter, for as long as I can think of them :-). Check them out and let me know what you think! Darren
The Virtues and Vices of GPO Deny ACEs
Someone asked me recently what I thought of using Deny ACEs on GPOs for security group filtering. First, a little background. As you probably know, you can control which users and computers will process a particular GPO by using security filtering on that GPO. The...
iPads in the Enterprise—running Windows
Saw this site put up by Citrix today--www.ipadsatwork.com. I thought it was an interesting approach--pitching iPads in the enterprise by making the iPad a glorified dumb terminal, via the Citrix Receiver, for accessing your Windows desktop and apps. While I agree that...