Group Policy Blog by Darren Mar-Elia (The “GPOGUY”)
Move Azure VM from One Subnet to Another
I was needing to test something on an unpatched 2008 R2 box and in my Azure lab the subnet that machine was pointed to was all full up! So, how to fix it? Of course PowerShell to the rescue. I wrote up a quick walkthrough of what I did to move the machine. Check it...
A Peek Inside Registry.pol
Hello everyone! I posted a quick video on polviewer.exe. The tool called 'Registry.pol Reader' is a free tool Darren Mar-Elia built to solve a pretty important issue. And because he's a great guy, there is that! The need for the tool is pretty obvious to those of us...
Troubleshooting GP Processing tip
Troubleshooting is a bit of an art form. It requires creativity but that creativity needs to be expressed inside certain parameters. Those parameters depend on what is being troubleshot. (Is that really a word?) There is a TechNet article that has been around for...
Spiceworld 2015 – Austin, TX!
Hi everyone! I hope you are well and you all had a great summer. I have to admit I'm torn, not quite enough Summer for me (or my kids) but I'm extremely excited to get back into a rhythm and get cranking on some great work this year. We have an amazing year planned at...
Video on Group Policy Preference Password Remediation
Just a quick follow up to my previous post on Group Policy Preference password remediation--our very own Kevin Sullivan posted a great video walkthrough of the problem and our tool for remediating these passwords. Enjoy! Darren
Remediating Group Policy Preference Passwords
A little over two weeks ago, the United State Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) issued a bulletin calling for admins to take action on an old issue that I've covered extensively in the past. The issue relates to the fact that there are several areas within...
Group Policy Comment
Do you place 'comments' on your GPOs? Did you ever wonder how to manage these, or how they may be useful. I put up a quick post on my blog (http://scituated.blogspot.com) that walks through GP Comments and how to manage them. It points back to SDM Software for deeper...
Group Policy Auditing & Attestation 2.0 Hits with new AD Group Attestation Feature
Last month we at SDM Software shipped the 2.0 version of our Group Policy Auditing & Attestation product. GPAA is our flagship product for helping you perform real-time compliance auditing, alerting, rollback and attestation of Group Policy Objects (GPOs). The...
Group Policy Preferences in the Local GPO? Yes!
If you caught the webinar last week that Kevin Sullivan and I presented, you might have caught the "secret tip" I presented at the end of the show (you can catch the whole webinar recording here). In there, I promised to more fully document this tip, so I'm doing that...
Hello World!
Darren posted a very thoughtful item related to my joining SDM software. It was very nice and made me realize I have a lot of expectations to meet! I'm up for the challenge. I've known Darren Mar-Elia for about 13 years or so and have come to know him and how he...