Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
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...
Group Policy Delegation
The other day I got a question about one of our free GPMC PowerShell cmdlets--namely, the Add-SDMgpoSecurity that lets you modify GPO security. One of the permissions that you can grant using the cmdlet is the GPO creation permission--which controls who can create...
It’s Not All About Group Policy…
Well, its a been a bit of time since my last blog post and this being the 1st of May, I thought I would take the opportunity to write a new entry. The last few weeks have been busy. As I've already mentioned, we released our Desktop Policy Manager product in early...
Desktop Policy Manager press coverage
Since we introduced the GPExpert Desktop Policy Manager last week, there's been some nice press coverage, including this article from Windows IT Pro, and this one from Network World. I'm very excited about this product. As someone said to me recently, "this...
SDM Software announces the release of Desktop Policy Manager!
Well, today we announced the release of a product I've mentioned in previous blog posts--the GPExpert Desktop Policy Manager. I'm very excited about this product because it is the first product that really seeks to address the complexity of managing desktop...
Launching the new GP Management Editor from the command-line
If you've installed the new Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) on Vista, SP1, you will notice some subtle changes in the Group Policy Editor. Namely, if you type gpedit.msc like you used to in the pre-RSAT days, you will still launch the GP Editor, focused on...