by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 28, 2014 | Group Policy Automation, IE Policy, PowerShell
Over this last weekend, Microsoft published warnings of yet another zero-day “memory corruption” Internet Explorer vulnerability to all versions of the venerable browser . Since there is no current patch for this yet, IT administrators are left to mitigate...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Feb 14, 2014 | Group Policy Cleanup
Group Policy Cleanup and optimization is top-of-mind for many of our customers. One of the key tools for helping customers achieve optimized GPO environments, SDM Software’s GPO Exporter product, just got an update recently. One of the small improvements we...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 22, 2014 | Tips & Tricks
If you haven’t already seen it, it’s now been widely documented that the feature within GP Preferences Group Policy that allows you to store passwords within a GPO for a variety of uses, is essentially not secure. If you haven’t read one of these...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jan 8, 2014 | Cool New Products, PowerShell
Hey PowerShell and Group Policy Fans! If you want to script group policy changes, life just got easier! I’m pleased to announce that today we shipped a major upgrade to our GP Automation Engine product–version 3.0. For those of you who don’t know...
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...
