by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 19, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Tools, registry policy, Security Policy, Tips & Tricks
A recent thread on Mark Minasi’s forum site reminded me of a topic that comes up every once in a while–namely, how do you cleanly remove Group Policy settings from a machine that has been removed from an AD domain. The answer is to avoid the problem in the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 31, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software
Windows IT Pro Magazine is holding their annual Community Choice Awards for IT products. SDM Software has three products nominated this year, as follows: Best Active Directory & Group Policy Product SDM Software GPO Reporting Pak SDM Software Group Policy...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 27, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
Whenever a new Windows OS ships, there’s always the inevitable period of discovery–especially for us Group Policy geeks–where we learn about all the new settings that come in GP, and how or whether we can control new OS features using Group Policy....
by Darren Mar-Elia | Aug 20, 2012 | GPMC, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
Now that Windows 8 is out (or almost out), the inevitable questions will arise about introducing it into your Group Policy Management world. As with previous versions of Windows, the approach with Windows 8 (and Server 2012) will be similar. Since Windows 8 and Server...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 30, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software, Tips & Tricks, Videos
This week we’ll be releasing an minor update to our GPO Exporter product. One of the cool things that we’re adding to this release is the ability to generate GPO settings snapshots using PowerShell. The GUI version of the product already includes the...