Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
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...
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