Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
Group Policy Health Cmdlet now free!
We've updated our PowerShell-based Group Policy Health cmdlet and made it free up on our website at www.sdmsoftware.com/freeware. For those of you who have not seen the Health Cmdlet, this is a command-line tool for retrieving GP processing health against...
4th Edition of O’Reilly Active Directory Book is out!
Just a quick note to let everyone know that the 4th edition of the Active Directory Book from O'Reilly is out, courtesy of AD MVP Brian Desmond. For those of you who aren't familiar with this book, its an invaluable resource for Active Directory...
Finding and Disabling GPO Links using PowerShell
I had a question come up today about a use case for our GPMC cmdlets and figured it was worth sharing for other's benefit. Here's the scenario. I have a GPO who's name I know. I want to find all the places that its linked and then I want disable all the...
SDM Software Ships GPO Compare Product for spotting GPO inconsistencies
Today we shipped our new GPO Compare 1.0 product. This is something I've wanted to do for a while--provide a standalone product to help IT administrators quickly find inconsistencies between GPOs. With GPO Compare, I think we've delivered a cool new...
Microsoft to do PowerShell in Group Policy in Windows 7
Microsoft's Group Policy product team recently posted a blog announcing that they will be adding PowerShell support to Windows 7 for various Group Policy management tasks, such as those things you can do in GPMC scripts today. In addition, they are adding...
Join Me This Week at WinConnections!
This week I'll be at the Windows Connections show in Las Vegas presenting 5 sessions on Group Policy (what else!) and PowerShell. If you are planning to attend this show, stop by one of my sessions and say hi, or, I will be hosting a GP troubleshooting/management...
SpecOps GPUpdate 2.0 Ships
Just a quick update to my previous blog posting to let you all know that the 2.0 version of GPUpdate has shipped from SpecOps:https://www.specopssoft.com/products/specopsgpupdate/Tags:SpecOps, GPUpdate
New/Updated Group Policy Products from SpecOps
My friends at SpecOps are getting ready to release one updated and one new product that continues to make Group Policy a more powerful solution for managing Windows desktops and servers. They are getting ready to release an update to their free GPUpdate tool,...
Podcast Interview on ConcentratedTech Blog
I just did an interview yesterday for MVPs Don Jones and Greg Shield's ConcentratedTech Podcast. You can check it out at https://concentratedtech.com/content/index.php/2008/10/episode-3/. In the interview, I talked about Microsoft's release of the new version of AGPM...
Group Policy Troubleshooting Series
Last week I did a series of GP Troubleshooting blog entries for the folks at Realtime Publishers. I posted 4 blog entries that walk through, step-by-step, the process I typically use when helping someone troubleshoot a GP problem. Many of these techniques are...