by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 9, 2024 | 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 Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\System Services to control Windows Service startup settings (e.g....
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 5, 2023 | 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 it’s behavior. Especially when those things are substantial and weird. Such was my experience last week when a...
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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 31, 2023 | Security-related
You may have caught the recent article about a new malware variant, called SwiftSlicer–attributed to a Russian APT group–that is making its way around Active Directory environments. There’s not a ton of details about how this malware is delivered,...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 15, 2019 | Security-related
One of the advantages of messing around with Group Policy since before it shipped, is that there is a lot of stuff rattling around in my head that I’ve been re-thinking in the context of today’s modern threat landscape. This allows me to think about...
