by Darren Mar-Elia | Jul 14, 2012 | Group Policy Management, IE Maintenance Policy, Windows 8
Fellow Group Policy MVP Alan Burchill brought this topic up on our GP MVP mailing list and I had to look into it. He pointed out that in the release candidate for Server 2012/Windows 8, the IE Maintenance Policy node can no longer be found within GP Editor, as shown...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 7, 2012 | Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, sdm software, Tips & Tricks
One of the challenges any reasonable-sized IT shop has around Group Policy is the need to be able to find and discover all the settings that have been deployed. Something as simple as searching for one or more settings across all settings is pretty tough to do in the...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 17, 2012 | Group Policy, Group Policy Management, MMS 2012
We’re here at MMS 2012 in Las Vegas this week (see a picture of our booth attached to this post!) talking to customers about their Group Policy needs. A couple of interesting themes emerged. One is kind of humorous. More often than not, when someone walked by...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 26, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy Management, MMS 2012, sdm software
SDM Software will be exhibiting at this year’s upcoming Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) on April 16-19th in Las Vegas! If you’re attending MMS or are thinking about it, come on by our booth (#129) on the exhibit floor Monday-Thursday. We’ll be...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 26, 2012 | Cool New Products, Group Policy, Group Policy Management, Group Policy Tools, PowerShell, sdm software, Tips & Tricks, Videos
One of the cool things I like about our Group Policy Automation Engine product is the scenarios that it’s open up by providing what is essentially an automation portal into GPOs. One of those key scenarios is the ability to automate additions and changes to...