Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
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...
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...