by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 3, 2016 | Desired State Configuration, Freeware, General Stuff, GP Troubleshooting, GPOGUY.COM, Group Policy Automation, Group Policy Blog, PowerShell, registry policy, sdm software, Tips & Tricks, Videos
Group Policy Objects (GPOs) can contain many different kinds of settings. Much of that data is simple registry data. Finding registry settings in GPOs and handling them is not the simplest of tasks and requires some PowerShell. Microsoft has provided some cmdlets for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 6, 2016 | Technology Futures
For my first post of the new year, I thought I’d go big and talk about some existential questions facing Windows configuration management. First, whither Group Policy? Second, how do we think about all this here at SDM Software–as we consider ourselves...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 8, 2015 | Desired State Configuration, GP Troubleshooting, Group Policy, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, registry policy
Group Policy has been a bit of a comfort for many of us for the past 15 years. It is a technology that is full of promise and capability. It is sufficiently complex, and incredibly powerful. As PowerShell has evolved to embrace configuration with Desired State...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 20, 2015 | Security-related
I had a good email conversation last week with someone on the PowerShell team at Microsoft, in the wake of the release of our Desired State Configuration CSE. The gist of his question was around how users could protect the configuration information held within the DSC...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 12, 2015 | Desired State Configuration
If any of you were at Microsoft’s Ignite conference last week, and caught the session I participated in around Group Policy, you might have heard me talk about an exciting new piece of technology related to PowerShell Desired State Configuration that we were...
