by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 17, 2008 | General Stuff
If you haven’t already seen it, check out my article in this month’s TechNet Magazine on "Optimizing Group Policy Performance". The article goes into fair bit of detail about things you can do (or not do) to ensure that GP performance is good on...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 15, 2008 | General Stuff
I sat in on a Microsoft webcast presentation of the upcoming release of Group Policy Preferences, which I blogged about earlier. This is the old DesktopStandard PolicyMaker stuff for extending Group Policy to do much more than it does today. While I used to work with...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 3, 2008 | sdm software
Late last year, we (SDM Software that is!) announced the GPExpert™ Backup Manager for Group Policy product. Well, the product is now available to trial on our website. The product leverages the GPMC’s backup format but also includes some neat features such...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 12, 2007 | General Stuff
A while back, Mark Russinovich (the pre-Microsoft Mark Russinovich!) had blogged about being able to circumvent some Group Policy using a DLL injection method that intercepted calls to the registry keys used by policy. He created a tool at the time called gpdisable...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 5, 2007 | General Stuff
Someone emailed a question to the GPOGUY GPTalk mailing list today that I thought was worth chatting about. The question pertained to disappearing Group Policy links. Namely, he had a situation where links to GPOs would periodically disappear from Active...