Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
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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...
What’s Happening in the GP World???
Hey Folks. Sorry for the long delay in between postings. Lots going on in Group Policy land and in my own life that has been keeping me busy! But, now that I have some time, I wanted to blog about a few things of note, in no particular order:Thanks to Mike Kline for...
Russinovich demos Group Policy cmdlets at TechEd
I thought this was cool: https://blogs.technet.com/grouppolicy/archive/2009/05/12/group-policy-at-tech-ed-2009-mark-russinovich-demos-group-policy-powershell-cmdlets.aspxMark demo'd Microsoft's upcoming Group Policy PowerShell cmdlets that will ship with Windows 7 and...
Going to MMS?
If you're planning on being at the Microsoft Management Summit next week, I'll be presenting a Group Policy Troubleshooting session there on Wednesday morning. Stop by and say hi or attend the session or the Birds of a Feather I'll be doing that evening at around...