by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 5, 2013 | PowerShell, Tips & Tricks
Recently, as part of one of our Group Policy consulting engagements, we recommended to a customer to adopt a consistent GPO naming standard. This kind of standard makes the function and purpose of a GPO more clear and eases discovery of a Group Policy environment. As...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 22, 2013 | Windows 8.1
A while back I wrote a post describing the new Group Policy caching feature in Windows 8.1. As I mentioned in the post, this feature was designed to speed up GP processing when “synchronous” foreground policy processing was occurring. Synchronous...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Sep 26, 2013 | Desired State Configuration, Group Policy, PowerShell
If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’ve become a big fan of the new Desired State Configuration feature in Windows Management Framework 4 (i.e. PowerShell 4). It makes configuring Windows Servers a snap and provides a whole new set of configuration...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 25, 2013 | Desired State Configuration, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Server 2012, Windows 8.1
If you haven’t read my most recent post on Desired State Configuration (DSC)–the new feature coming with the Windows Management Framework v4 (i.e. PowerShell v4, which will ship in the box in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012-R2) then I encourage you to...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 9, 2013 | Desired State Configuration, Windows 8.1
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about my first experiences with the new Desired State Configuration (DSC) feature that is part of Windows Server 2012-R2 and Windows 8.1 Preview (and will also be available for Windows 8/2012 and Windows 7/2008-R2). I got a chance to...