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

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...

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...

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...

TechEd notes

Well, I'm back from TechEd and settling back into the work groove. If you weren't there, well I'm here to tell you that TechEd is one BIG show. I heard numbers of people ranging from 12,000 to 13,000. The Orlando Convention Center redefines big as well. I'm told it...

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