Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
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...
Scripting Toolkit webinar on Oct. 10!
Just a quick note to let folks know that I'm going to be giving a webinar on our GPExpert™ Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell product next Wednesday, October 10th, at 8:30am Pacific Time. In this webinar, I'll go over how you can use the Scripting Toolkit and...
GPMC scripts download now available for Vista
If you're running Vista with GPMC pre-installed, you know that the one big difference between the Vista version of GPMC and the version you install from the MS download site onto XP, is that the sample scripts that the XP version provides are not to be found on...
more on the removal of GPMC from Vista, SP1
I've received a number of comments and have seen a number of blog postings subsequent to my blog posting about this topic. One of the reasons I mentioned that it was probably not a good idea to have GPMC on every system was that inherently anyone that could read...
Free GUI tool for Server 2008 fine-grained password management
As you may have heard, Microsoft is finally providing the ability to have fine-grained password policies within a single AD domain. That means you can now have different password policies for different user groups within AD. This feature is described nicely in Jorge...
Group Policy Talks at NetPro’s DEC 2008!
For those of you who have been to NetPro's DEC conference, you know that this is just about the best AD and MS Identity Management conference there is. Well, Group Policy is not left out at this year's upcomfing DEC 2008 in Chicago (*TGINV!). For the 3rd year in a...
Survey on future of Group Policy
Here's your chance to contribute some input to the future of Group Policy! The Microsoft Group Policy product team asked me to post this. They need input in the next two weeks so if you're so inclined, have at it! The Microsoft Group Policy team would like...