Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
Quest acquires Netpro
For those who haven't seen the news, it was just announced this morning: https://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080912/20080912005372.html?.v=1Our little part of the world just got a little smaller and the folks who brought you DEC are now part of a much larger...
Group Policy Troubleshooting Posts
Starting today, I'll be guest blogging at https://www.realtime-windowsserver.com/ on Group Policy troubleshooting. I'm doing a series of blog items on the steps that you can go through to successfully troubleshoot Group Policy. Check it out! Tags:Group...
Whitepaper on Group Policy Preferences
I've seen a lot of interest in Group Policy Preferences since its release, and a lot of confusion about whether you can use it if you don't have Windows Server 2008 in your environment (you can!) so I thought it would be useful to create a quick whitepaper on the...
Good article on Group Policy & Security Compliance
I thought this Information Week article did a good job of articulating the challenges of security compliance on Windows, and the use of Group Policy as the first line of defense here. Most folks have been using GP to lockdown their desktop systems for a while now, but...
Power Management in XP
I frequently find that a lot of folks have not yet discovered all of the cool new Group Policy management features that Group Policy Preferences brings to Windows. As a result, I thought it would be worthwhile to do a couple of blog items about some of these features....
Picking up Computer Group Membership Changes without a Reboot
One of the irritating side effects of using Group Policy security group filtering on computers is that, if you change a computer's group membership, you either had to reboot the computer or wait the default 7 days for the computer's Kerberos ticket to expire before it...
Enjoying Vista? Sure, why not.
I suppose the din of Vista haters has been increasing lately to the point where I've actually noticed it. Lastw week, I read a blog post from my good buddy Jackson Shaw, who expressed his frustrations over Vista and IE7. And of course the technology press and analysts...
New Version of GPMC PowerShell Cmdlets Released!
Well, we've released a new version of our GPMC PowerShell cmdlets--version 1.2. This new version represents a significant updgrade to the existing cmdlets. The biggest change is that we incorporated new functionality that became available in the version of GPMC that...
GP Change Auditing
The folks at NetWrix have just announced their newest product--Group Policy Change Reporter. The product comes in both a freeware and commercial version and can provide detailed change reporting on who made changes to GPOs, what settings were changed and when. It...
Opportunity for providing Microsoft feedback on Server Management
Hey Folks. The Group Policy Team at Microsoft is looking for feedback on managing Windows Servers. They've put a survey up online. If you want to get your feedback and experiences heard, and incorporated into future products, this is an ideal opportunity to do...