Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
SBS 2008 Group Policy Webinar for Microsoft Partners!
Just a quick note to let those of you who are Microsoft partners know that I'm going to be giving a webinar on using Group Policy in Small Business Server (SBS) 2008 on April 24th. Here's the info on the webinar if you want to register to attend!Date: 4/24/2009...
SDM Software Ships new Group Policy Automation Engine
As I mentioned in a previous post, SDM Software was close to shipping the next version of our GPExpert Scripting Toolkit product, and that has happened! Today we announced the release of the GPExpert(r) Group Policy Automation Engine 2.0. This newly branded and...
GPMC Cmdlets Update
Just a quick shout-out to let folks know that I posted an update to our SDM Software GPMC Cmdlets on our freeware page. This is version 1.3 and primarily just fixes some bugs including an issue when you tried to get, add or remove site-based GPO links....
Automating GP Preferences
In a recent posting on the Activedir.org mailing list, I happened to mention that we're getting ready to release v. 2.0 of our GPExpert(r) Scripting Toolkit. The Toolkit is actually getting a new name, but I won't spoil the surprise for now. However, the key feature...
Group Policy Preferences and the Registry
So, the other day I was trading some email with a friend and mentioned that I was working on a nifty little utility to allow someone to import the contents of a .reg file into Group Policy Preferences registry extensions using the command-line. He commented that it...
AGPM Planning Guide released
Just a quick note for those of you using or thinking about using Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) product for Group Policy Change Control. MS has just released a planning guide for AGPM...
Intro to Win 7 GP PowerShell Cmdlets
I previously blogged about how Microsoft is going to deliver some PowerShell cmdlets in Windows 7 for Group Policy. Now that Windows 7 beta is out, information is starting to flow about what these will look like. A recent blog post by the GP product team at...
More on the Group Policy Health Cmdlet
In a previous post, I mentioned that the Group Policy Health Cmdlet was now a free download at www.sdmsoftware.com/freeware. The Health Cmdlet is a PowerShell utility for collecting Group Policy processing health against one or more remote systems. The cmdlet returns...
Please Explain Loopback Processing
Someone today on our GPTalk Group Policy Mailing List asked a simple question for which there is a fairly long, complicated answer, "Could you please explain Group Policy Loopback Processing ? I'm finding this very difficult to understand"One would think...
MVP for Another Year…
Well, I received the always welcome email yesterday indicating that my Group Policy MVP status has been renewed. Its an honor to receive this status, though I have to admit that it was touch and go as yesterday dragged on with no notification, until I realized that...