Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
Some Holiday Reading…
If you were looking for something to do this holiday season with all that spare time, January's issue of TechNet Magazine has no less then 3 articles devoted to Group Policy, including an article I wrote on optimizng Group Policy Performance. Enjoy!Tags:Group Policy,...
Bypassing Group Policy?
A while back, Mark Russinovich (the pre-Microsoft Mark Russinovich!) had blogged about being able to circumvent some Group Policy using a DLL injection method that intercepted calls to the registry keys used by policy. He created a tool at the time called gpdisable...
The Clash of the GPO Links
Someone emailed a question to the GPOGUY GPTalk mailing list today that I thought was worth chatting about. The question pertained to disappearing Group Policy links. Namely, he had a situation where links to GPOs would periodically disappear from Active...
PowerShell Script for Backing up and editing a GPO
This is the 2nd in an irregular series of discussions about using SDM Software PowerShell cmdlets for managing Group Policy. In this post, I've written a fairly simple PowerShell script that uses two of our free GPMC cmdlets to first backup a GPO, and then launch...
GPExpert Troubleshooting Pak review
Windows IT Pro Magazine has a good review of SDM Software's GPExpert Troubleshooting Pak in the December issue. The reviewer did a pretty good job of covering the product, and while there were a few technical inaccuracies, I think we did pretty well! Check it out at...
SDM Software GPMC cmdlets updated
Well, I suppose I couldn't help myself. I had planned on updating our cmdlets released last week to correct an omission that Richard Siddaway had kindly pointed out, namely that I didn't have a remove-sdmgplink to go along with add-sdmgplink. So I went ahead and...
Significant Group Policy Announcement by MS
Yesterday at TechEd in Barcelona, Microsoft made a slew of announcements. And buried in those announcements was the note about Group Policy Preferences. This is the name Microsoft has given to the DesktopStandard PolicyMaker extensions that they acquired last...
New free Group Policy PowerShell cmdlets
Well, many of you know that we released the GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell back at the end of July. The Toolkit lets you modify the settings within Group Policy objects using PowerShell. I also had a couple of cmdlets out on my GPOGUY.COM site that wrapped...
Retrieving Admin Template settings using Powershell
This is the first in a series of blogs postings I plan to do showing how you can use Microsoft's very cool PowerShell scripting environment and SDM Software's Group Policy Automation Engine, to manage Group Policy settings. One of the strengths of the GPAE is the...
Article about PowerShell, GP and the GPExpert Scripting Toolkit
Jeff Hicks, scripting-guy extraordinaire at scripting solutions vendor Sapien, wrote a nice article on the Redmond Magazine website about scripting Group Policy with PowerShell. He specifically talks about our free GPOGUY PowerShell cmdlets and how you can use...