Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
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...
GPMC not part of Vista, SP1
In case you hadn't seen it, an article came out last week on Betanews that talked about the fact that MS will be removing GPMC (Group Policy Management Console) from Vista when SP1 ships. This story was blogged heavily, although I have yet to see any blogs...
Microsoft releases Group Policy Best Practices Analyzer tool
Microsoft has publicly released their Group Policy Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) tool. This tool is designed to collect GP-related data from remote nodes and provide you with some ideas of things to be concerned about as it relates to Group Policy. I encourage...
Understanding RSOP
A question that appeared on the newsgroups today prompted me to blog about Group Policy Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) and its capabilities. RSOP was first introduced in Windows XP as a way of letting administrators find out what happened during the last GP processing...
GPExpert Scripting Toolkit in Action
Just a quick note that if you want to see the GPExpert Scripting Toolkit (GPST) in action, cruise on over to Adam Bell's blog. Adam's been evaluating the Toolkit and has posted some sample PowerShell commands showing how you can use the GPST to modify policy...
interesting script-based config. tool going open source
In the vein of interesting desktop configuration management tools, the company that created the product ScriptStart, Entrigue Systems, announced that it is going to be open sourcing a version of their logon script based desktop configuration tool. While this...
GPExpert Scripting Toolkit Released!
Well, today we announced the release of v.1 of the GPExpert Scripting Toolkit for PowerShell. As I mentioned in an earlier post, this is the culmination of something I've talked about doing for a long time--programmatic access into Group Policy settings. With the...
GP Troubleshooting Webinars
We're going to be giving weekly Group Policy Troubleshooting webinars, starting next Wednesday, July 25th. In the webinars, I'll discuss best practices for GP Troubleshooting and then finish off with a demo of SDM Software's GPExpert Troubleshooting Pack. We're...
New GP PowerShell cmdlet
Well, I've created a new PowerShell cmdlet to go along with my get-SDMgpo cmdlet. Its called new-SDMgpo, and its purpose in life is to let you use PowerShell to create new GPOs. As with the previous cmdlet I created, it requires GPMC to be installed where it runs...
WPA2 policy support in XP
This topic came up on a newsgroup the other day, prompting me to look around a bit. Basically, MS added support for the newer WPA2 encryption protocol for wireless networks in XP, SP2. This KB article describes the Wireless Client update that you can apply to...