by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 20, 2017 | Freeware, Uncategorized
One of the very first freeware projects I undertook when I started SDM Software, was to build a PowerShell snap-in (yes, they were called snap-ins back then) for Group Policy. That was back in 2007, long before Microsoft had their own Group Policy module...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 10, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
When Microsoft shipped Windows 8 & Windows Server 2012, they added a new feature in GPMC, that allows you to perform remote Group Policy Updates on OUs of computers. I covered this feature in my previous roundup of Windows 8.1 Group Policy features. This feature...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 29, 2012 | GPMC, Group Policy, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell
Thanks to a thread on our GPOGUY.COM GPTalk Mailing list, I decided it was time to crack open our GPMC PowerShell module and make a couple of updates. The most significant of these is two new cmdlets: Get-SDMGPOOwner Set-SDMGPOOwner As the name implies, these two...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 20, 2012 | GPMC, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
Now that Windows 8 is out (or almost out), the inevitable questions will arise about introducing it into your Group Policy Management world. As with previous versions of Windows, the approach with Windows 8 (and Server 2012) will be similar. Since Windows 8 and Server...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 21, 2012 | Cool New Products, General Stuff, GPMC, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, RSOP, Windows 8
While much is changing in Windows 8, the changes related to Group Policy are more modest. One of these modest changes is in the Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) functionality, exposed through the Group Policy Results Wizard in GPMC. This wizard was always my first...