Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
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...
SDM Software to visit TechEd
In addition to shipping the Troubleshooting Pak, we will be at the upcoming Microsoft TechEd show in Orlando this next week. If you are at the show, stop by and see us at our partner Special Operations Software's booth #914!
SDM GPExpert Troubleshooting Pak Ships!
Well, after a lot of hard work and late nights, we just shipped the GPExpert Troubleshooting Pak 1.0 last night. This is a significant milestone for the company as its our first suite of products for troubleshooting Group Policy. The Pak is composed of 4 different...
Desktop Optimization Pack with GPOVault ships
I read today that Microsoft has shipped the updated Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance customers that includes the DesktopStandard GPOVault product, which MS is calling "Advanced Group Policy Management". For those who don't know, GPOVault is a...
Microsoft, Group Policy and Open Source
So, what do these three topics in the title have in common? Some might read that and think, "well, nothing". But indeed its not the case. Microsoft has kicked an open source project and one of the first tools to go into that process is a Group Polic y tool....
Netpro’s DEC Conference
I had an opportuntiy to attend this week's Directory Expert's Conference, put on by Netpro. I'm told that this year's conference was the biggest ever, at nearly 800 people. If you go to only one AD related conference in a year, this is the one to attend. Its got...
A better way to deploy Office 2007 with Group Policy?
Since I've been blogging fairly regularly about the problems using GP to deploy Office 2007, and in fact even wrote about it in this month's Windows IT Pro Magazine, it was no surprise that I heard recently from my good friends at Special Operations Software. They...
GPExpert Health Reporter 1.5 Ships!
Well, SDM Software has shipped the update to the popular GPExpert Health Reporter tool. This tool provides some great troubleshooting features for ensuring Group Policy is healthy on a given Windows system. The tool now supports installation on Windows Vista and also...
Office 2007 & GPSI, revisited
While there hasn't been much in the way of updates since my previous blog entry on the challenges of deploying Office 2007, one thing has happened, and that is that MS has re-published their previously yanked article on how to implement this. You can now find it...
Cmdlet Wins a Prize!
Well, I just blogged about a little GP PowerShell cmdlet that I wrote recently to retrieve GPO information. I also mentioned that I created a Quest PowerGUI snap-in for it. Well it turns out Quest has a weekly drawing for the best cmdlet and I just won $200 for...