Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
Going to DEC 2008? See you there!
NetPro is hosting their annual Directory Experts Conference next week in Chicago. If you haven't been to this show, its a great place to mean all the giant brains in the Active Directory world and learn some cool things about AD and related technologies. If you are...
Group Policy Preference CSEs Now Available for Download!
One of the members on our GPTalk mailing list just informed me that the Client Side Extension (CSE) packages for the new Group Policy Preference product are now available on the Microsoft download site. These are the installs that allow Windows clients to process the...
More GP Q&A Resources
Well, in addition to my earlier blog post about resources for getting Group Policy help, Microsoft has fired up a new TechNet GP 2008 Forum. Check it out! Tags:Group Policy, TechNet
Update to GPMC Cmdlets!
Well, we've updated our free SDM Software GPMC PowerShell cmdlets (registration optional)! We are now up to 16 cmdlets! Cool. Here's what we've added:Added the –DomainName parameter to all cmdlets as appropriate to allow you to perform operations against...
Got Group Policy Problems?
Every once in a while I like to mention that we have a great resource for asking questions and getting answers related to Group Policy. As you may know if you've read my blog for a while, I started the gpoguy.com website several years back as a free resource for GP...
Webinar on Group Policy for Mac
Just an FYI that the guys over at Centrify are hosting a webinar to talk about their Group Policy implementation for non-Windows systems, including Linux/Unix and the Mac. Fellow GP MVP Jeremy Moskowitz is providing color commentary as well so it should be a...
PowerShell Group Policy Remote Refresh
Well, if you've read my blog at all, you know that there are two technology areas that are especially interesting to me--Group Policy and PowerShell. Once again, I've brought the two together in the form of a new freeware cmdlet for triggering remote Group Policy...
Group Policy Performance and Security Policy
If you haven't already seen it, check out my article in this month's TechNet Magazine on "Optimizing Group Policy Performance". The article goes into fair bit of detail about things you can do (or not do) to ensure that GP performance is good on your Windows...
Group Policy Preferences
I sat in on a Microsoft webcast presentation of the upcoming release of Group Policy Preferences, which I blogged about earlier. This is the old DesktopStandard PolicyMaker stuff for extending Group Policy to do much more than it does today. While I used to work with...
New Group Policy Backup & Recovery Product
Late last year, we (SDM Software that is!) announced the GPExpert™ Backup Manager for Group Policy product. Well, the product is now available to trial on our website. The product leverages the GPMC's backup format but also includes some neat features such as...