Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
RSoP & GP Preferences
I was playing around with some scenarios related to "item-level targeting" (ILT) in Group Policy Preferences and was reminded of a significant limitation in this newer as it relates to Resultant Set of Policy reporting. What I was doing was creating a...
Group Policy Automation Engine wins Editor’s Choice Gold!
Well, I was very surprised and happy to receive an IM from a colleague this morning, directing me to https://windowsitpro.com/Windows/Articles/ArticleID/102984/pg/2/2.html, where I read that our SDM Software Group Policy Automation Engine won GOLD as Best Active...
Win7 issue reporting on Software Restriction Policies
I found this issue recently--at first I thought it was just my environment, but have confirmed it on a couple of different environments. When you are on a Win 7 box (and probably R2 as well), in GPMC and viewing the setttings of a GPO that had previously been created...
Cool new tool for comparing IE Zone Security Settings
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Group Policy Slow Link Detection in Vista and beyond
As many folks probably know, Group Policy slow link detection prior to Windows Vista relied on a series of ICMP pings to determine link speed between the client and domain controller. This process was fairly inprecise and was fraught with issues because many folks...
Vote for SDM Software’s GPExpert Group Policy Automation Engine!!!
OK folks, our Group Policy Automation Engine (GPAE), the only automation solution available on the market for reading and writing settings within GPOs, is one of the finalists in the Windows IT Pro Magazine Community Choice Awards, in the "Best AD and GP...
Nominate Our GP Products for a Community Award!
HEY GPOGUY & SDM SOFTWARE FANS!! We need your help! Windows IT Pro Magazine is having their COMMUNITY AWARDS NOMINATIONS until this Friday, August 14th. If you like the freeware products we have on www.gpoguy.com and on www.sdmsoftware.com/freeware, please...
Network World covers ActiveX Killbits and SDM Software!
I thought this was cool. John Fontana over at Network World did a nice article on the challenges around the recent Microsoft zero-day vulnerabilities and SDM Software and yours truly got a nice mention on Page 2! Cool!Darren
ActiveX Killbits and Group Policy
Recently, Microsoft announced a zero-day vulnerability in IE's ActiveX video control, that required folks to react quickly to prevent exploits of this vulnerability. One of the possible routes for preventing this was to disable the affected ActiveX control in...
Microsoft releases PolicyMaker to GP Preferences Migration Tool
For those of you waiting patiently to migrate your PolicyMaker settings to the new GP Preferences format, your wait is over! You can now download the migration tool here! And here's a good blog post on how it all works. DarrenTags:Group Policy, Group Policy...