by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 14, 2013 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Reporting, Group Policy Tools, sdm software, Webinar, Windows 8
I’m happy to announce that on January 30th at 9am Pacific Time (GMT-8), SDM Software will be presenting a webinar entitled, “Optimizing Group Policy Design and Performance with SDM Software”. In this webinar, fellow Group Policy MVP Derek Melber and...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 7, 2013 | Group Policy, Group Policy Design, Group Policy Reporting, Group Policy Tools, Microsoft-Related, sdm software, Server 2012, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
Just a quick note to let folks know that the interview I gave with TechNet Radio about the changes for Group Policy in Server 2012/Windows 8 is up now at:...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 4, 2013 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software
Well, I don’t know about anyone else, but I am hard pressed to understand how another year has come and gone. Here at SDM, we have been non-stop busy delivering awesome new Group Policy Management Tools to you, our customers. 2012 marked another banner year for...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Dec 19, 2012 | Event Logs, General Stuff, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Security Policy
I was trolling around GP Editor in Windows 8 and found a set of Administrative Template settings that I had not seen before. Interestingly, those setting did indeed exist in Windows 7 (and probably Vista) so it was just me missing them. Prior to those OS releases, if...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 30, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, Tips & Tricks, Windows 8
A couple of weeks ago I wrote this post on the MSDN site, reviewing some of the new Group Policy features in Windows 8/Server 2012. One of those features was a new PowerShell cmdlet in the Group Policy PowerShell module called invoke-gpupdate. This cmdlet, as the name...