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