by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 5, 2010 | General Stuff
I had a question recently that I thought was worth blogging. The question was, “if I create a GPO using Windows 7, Server 2008 or similar newer platform”, then backup that GPO using XP or Server 2003, will it back up everything?”. The answer, not...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 2, 2010 | General Stuff
Despite once again having to fetch it from my spam folder, I did indeed get the coveted email from Microsoft yesterday indicating that I’d been made a Group Policy MVP for the 5th year in a row. Cool! I am honored and happy to be an MVP for another year. I look...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 29, 2009 | Group Policy Preferences
I was playing around with some scenarios related to "item-level targeting" (ILT) in Group Policy Preferences and was reminded of a significant limitation in this newer as it relates to Resultant Set of Policy reporting. What I was doing was creating a...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 20, 2009 | sdm software
Well, I was very surprised and happy to receive an IM from a colleague this morning, directing me to http://windowsitpro.com/Windows/Articles/ArticleID/102984/pg/2/2.html, where I read that our SDM Software Group Policy Automation Engine won GOLD as Best Active...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 2, 2009 | Bugs
I found this issue recently–at first I thought it was just my environment, but have confirmed it on a couple of different environments. When you are on a Win 7 box (and probably R2 as well), in GPMC and viewing the setttings of a GPO that had previously been...
