by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 15, 2015 | GP Troubleshooting, Group Policy Blog, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Reporting, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks
Troubleshooting is a bit of an art form. It requires creativity but that creativity needs to be expressed inside certain parameters. Those parameters depend on what is being troubleshot. (Is that really a word?) There is a TechNet article that has been around for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 18, 2013 | Videos
In this video, SDM Software (www.sdmsoftware.com) CTO & Founder Darren Mar-Elia shows how you can use the GPO Reporting Pak–composed of GPO Compare and Exporter, to detect changes within a Group Policy environment. Video Transcript: Detecting Group Policy...
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 | Dec 14, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Performance, Group Policy Reporting, Group Policy Tools, sdm software, Windows 8
If you’ve followed my blog postings and articles recently, you know that I’ve been speaking and writing on decisions that you can make in your Group Policy design that impact GP processing performance, and often, perceived desktop performance by the end...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 20, 2012 | Cool New Products, GPO Compare, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Reporting, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software
Just wanted to drop a quick note to let folks know that we just shipped version 2.6 of GPO Compare! This is an incremental update but it includes some key new features, including support in our GPO Compare PowerShell cmdlet for comparing GPO Exporter snapshots. This...