by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 23, 2010 | General Stuff, Group Policy Preferences, Security-related
Microsoft recently announced a new security vulnerability in Windows shortcuts that affects all versions of Windows since XP! Its references here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2286198. This particular vulnerability takes advantage of the icon that appears in...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 19, 2009 | Cool New Products
For those of you waiting patiently to migrate your PolicyMaker settings to the new GP Preferences format, your wait is over! You can now download the migration tool here! And here’s a good blog post on how it all works. DarrenTags:Group Policy, Group Policy...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 26, 2009 | Group Policy Preferences
In a recent posting on the Activedir.org mailing list, I happened to mention that we’re getting ready to release v. 2.0 of our GPExpert(r) Scripting Toolkit. The Toolkit is actually getting a new name, but I won’t spoil the surprise for now. However, the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 12, 2009 | Group Policy Preferences
So, the other day I was trading some email with a friend and mentioned that I was working on a nifty little utility to allow someone to import the contents of a .reg file into Group Policy Preferences registry extensions using the command-line. He commented that it...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 4, 2008 | Group Policy Preferences
I’ve seen a lot of interest in Group Policy Preferences since its release, and a lot of confusion about whether you can use it if you don’t have Windows Server 2008 in your environment (you can!) so I thought it would be useful to create a quick whitepaper...