Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
Modifying Default GPO Permissions at Creation Time
Now that we are all digging out from MS16-072, and the reality that it likely won't be "fixed" anytime soon, I think it's worthwhile to drop a quick blog post about how you can ensure that all GPOs that get created going forward in your environment, get the proper...
MS16-072 – GP Permissions and an overview
Hello Group Policy fans enthusiasts happy people! Darren and I had a quick discussion about his script to remediate the problems created by applying MS16-072 and GP processing. Read Darren's previous post for context but here is a recording of our discussion. Have a...
New Group Policy Patch MS16-072– “Breaks” GP Processing Behavior
This morning I woke up to an email from a fellow Group Policy MVP--Martin Binder--warning that folks were seeing GP Processing issues after the recent slew of Patch Tuesday updates were applied. Indeed, I had noted late on Tuesday via Twitter that there was a fix to...
Migrate Windows Firewall and AppLocker to Desired State Configuration
If you've followed this blog for a while, you know that about a year ago, I described a PowerShell script I wrote that migrates Group Policy Administrative Template settings to PowerShell Desired State Configuration Documents. I finally got around to updating this...
Deploying Software With Group Policy
Whitepaper describing how to use the Software Installation feature in Group Policy.
Group Policy Preferences Overview Whitepaper
This whitepaper provides an overview of the requirements for using the new Group Policy Preferences feature, and a quick overview of each new policy area within the product.
Welcome Walt Ramick
SDM Software is extremely excited to have Walt Ramick join our team leading both our tactical and strategic sales efforts. Walt has been involved with organizations selling enterprise software and services for over a decade and brings a wealth of knowledge around the...
Windows Nano Server–The “Group Policy-less Future?”
It's been about a year since Microsoft first announced plans to deliver Nano Server--a new SKU of Windows Server that is essentially a highly stripped down version of the OS, optimized for cloud/data center environments and container/micro-service workloads. What does...
Group Policy Security Compliance with PowerShell
Last year we shipped the Group Policy Compliance Manager (GPCM) product--our enterprise compliance reporting solution for Group Policy. Today we are releasing a new PowerShell module to go along with GPCM. This module allows for some cool capabilities for searching,...
GP Automation – Folder Options/Open With
OK, so this is not a 'new' story but it is an interesting one. Since the first script kitties were writing viruses that did nefarious things we had ways to ensure we could limit their impact. Redirecting .vbs to notepad was super common. I saw a tweet today from one...