Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
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...
MS makes Office 2007 ADMXs available (finally)
Microsoft has finally shipped some ADMX template files for configuring Office 2007! They are available here. That's good news--now you can use the new template format to customize Office 2007 deployments in your Vista environments without dragging around ADM files in...
More on registry tattooing–an interesting scenario
In my previous post I talked about security policy and its tattooing ways. But how about a scenario where a policy should not have tattooed, and did? That was the situation when I got an email from someone about a policy that was tattooing their systems. The situation...
The Minasi Forum Meeting
Many of you probably know who Mark Minasi is. Mark's been writing and speaking on Windows for a very long time. Mark is a good friend as well and a really good guy. He maintains a very active Forum, on which I moderate the Group Policy section. If you haven't...
Restricted Groups policy
Under the category of "you learn something new every day" I was playing around with some stuff yesterday and finally got a chance to confirm something that someone had posted on the ActiveDir mailing list. We all know about how some policies tattoo the...