by Darren Mar-Elia | May 4, 2026 | General Stuff
I still stumble across questions about Group Policy Loopback Processing on Reddit and other platforms. It confounds a lot of folks because what it does is a bit complex. In this blog, I am going to try to break it down so it is easy to digest. What is Loopback...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 28, 2026 | Tips & Tricks, WMI Filters
I was reminded of a thread I read a while back where someone was trying to filter a domain-linked GPO by OU membership. The objective was to allow or block computers in a specific OU from receiving a domain-linked GPO purely by evaluating the OU to which they...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 8, 2026 | Group Policy Management, Tips & Tricks
I have to say that after 25 years of messing around with Group Policy, I am constantly amazed by the new things I still learn about the technology and its behavior. Especially when those things are substantial and weird. Such was my recent experience when a colleague...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 20, 2026 | Tips & Tricks
On Twitter/X I saw a thread about managing Windows Services using Group Policy. The poster talked about using the setting area under Computer ConfigurationPoliciesWindows SettingsSecurity SettingsSystem Services to control Windows Service startup settings (e.g.,...
by Michael Johnson | Aug 29, 2023 | Cool New Products
Here at SDM Software, we are committed to making management of your Windows configuration technologies easier and more secure. This is why we released version 1.0 of our Change Manager for Group Policy product last year–to provide a modern, easy-to-use and...
