by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 13, 2015 | Tips & Tricks
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...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 19, 2014 | Group Policy Preferences
For those of you following this issue, which I blogged about previously, you’ll know that several areas within Group Policy Preferences allowed for defining of passwords that were stored with the GPO settings storage in SYSVOL. These passwords were stored using...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 5, 2013 | Group Policy Preferences, Tips & Tricks
One of the cool features within Group Policy Preferences, is the ability to use environment variables instead of static values, within any number of policy areas. For example, you can use the Files GP Preferences area to copy files from one location to another. In...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 18, 2012 | Group Policy Performance, Group Policy Preferences, Group Policy Reporting, Tips & Tricks
In my previous blog post, I wrote about some new reporting we’ll be providing in version 2.0 of our GPO Exporter product. One of the reports in that new version identifies GPOs that contain “expensive” Group Policy Preferences Item-Level Targeting...
by Darren Mar-Elia | May 18, 2012 | General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, IE Policy, Tips & Tricks
A recent thread on the GPOGUY.COM GPTalk Mailing list prompted me to write about managing IE settings using Group Policy. In an article I wrote for Windows IT Pro Magazine in 2011, I talked about the various technologies in Group Policy that you can use to manage IE...