Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
Scripting/SysAdmin Meme
I noticed that Jeff Hicks called me out on his blog for the Scripting/SysAdmin Meme, so I figured I would follow through with the chain and answer the questions here:How old were you when you started using computers?I was about 15. What was your first...
Whitepaper on Group Policy Management using PowerShell
I created a whitepaper a while back that describes how you can use SDM Software's free GPMC cmdlets along with our commercial GPExpert(tm) Scripting Toolkit product to automate Group Policy management using PowerShell. That whitepaper, entitled "Automating Group...
PowerShell Script to leverage AD Tombstone cmdlets
Well, Active Directory MVP and well-known speaker Guido Grillenmeier from HP has taken my AD tombstone reanimation cmdlets and fashioned a very cool PowerShell script that uses the cmdlets and the new AD snapshot mounting feature in Server 2008 to not only restore...
“I installed RSAT…where is GPMC?”
I've heard this question often enough since the Remote Server Administration Tools shipped that I thought it was worth blogging about it. After you install RSAT on your Vista, SP1 machine, you won't find GPMC installed right away. You'll need to go into the Control...
PowerShell hits the morgue
Well, despite the morbid title, this is not about dead things. Well, not quite. And amazingly its not about Group Policy either. In my ever increasing thirst for PowerShell knowledge, I thought I would experiment a bit with some Active Directory-based...
On Demand version of the “Securing Desktops…” Webinar available
For those of you who missed the webinar I did yesterday on "Securing Desktops with Group Policy", you can register to view the on-demand version here. If you did attend, thanks for listening! We had a good crowd and lots of good questions!
XMLLite and Group Policy Preferences
I have heard a lot of questions about the need to install the pre-requisite XMLLite package on XP and Server 2003 prior to installing the Group Policy Preferences Client Side Extensions to those versions of Windows. The fact is that XMLLite is currently not...
Don’t Like How they broke GP-based Deployment of Office 2007?
If you are one of the many IT administrators I've talked to that doesn't like how Microsoft essentially broke Group Policy Software Installation-based deployment of Office when they released Office 2007, here's how you can provide feedback to Microsoft. I just...
Updated Group Policy Book Now Available!
I just wanted to let everyone know that Microsoft Press has released a new version of the popular "Goup Policy Guide" book that fellow GP MVP Derek Melber and I contributed to a couple of years ago. This time Derek took the project on himself and the result...
“Securing Windows Desktops with Group Policy” Webinar
Hey folks. I just wanted to let you all know that I will be giving a webinar about using Group Policy to create secure desktop configurations next week. The webinar is all about looking at the technology within Group Policy related to creating secure...