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

“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...

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...

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...

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