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AGPM Deprecation: What You Need to Know

Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM), part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), has long been a critical tool for IT administrators managing large-scale Group Policy deployments. AGPM enhances the capabilities of native Group Policy Object (GPO)...

Enhancing SCADA Systems with SDM Software

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are critical to the operation of many industrial and critical infrastructure sectors. As organizations increasingly focus on securing their operational technology (OT) environments, integrating robust IT...

Enhance Your Microsoft Intune Deployment

Whether managing mobile or desktop devices, virtual or physical environments, or remote workers, Microsoft Intune provides a unified solution for securing access to company resources and keeping your workforce productive. However, this capability introduces...

Enhance Your Policy Management Deployment

Whether managing mobile or desktop devices, virtual or physical environments, or remote workers, Microsoft Intune provides a unified solution for securing access to company resources and keeping your workforce productive. While this capability is powerful, it also...

Microsoft Security Blueprint: Get Secure and Stay Secured

Microsoft's expansive ecosystem, with its billions of interconnected devices and services, indeed presents a vast array of potential entry points for RANSOMWARE ranked as the most pernicious threat in today’s cybersecurity landscape. The necessity for specialized...

Whitepaper–Admin Tiering for Group Policy

We've published a new whitepaper that describes how you can secure your Group Policy environment using the principles of Administrative Tiering. Admin Tiering lets you segregate sensitive GPOs and containers to administrators with appropriate rights to those, but it's...

Understanding Group Policy Storage

(This article was originally written way back in the early 2000s. I’ve finally gotten around to updating it for the modern era 😊) Group Policy leverages a complex and sometimes inconsistent model when it comes to storing the settings that you specify within a Group...

Group Policy, Privileged Access and Pass-the-Hash

In this whitepaper, SDM Software Founder and CTO Darren Mar-Elia covers the role that Group Policy plays in privileged access management within your environment, and how you can use Group Policy to mitigate how an attacker can move around your environment using...

Windows 10 & Group Policy–Key Steps to Group Policy Success

13-time Microsoft Group Policy MVP & SDM Software founder Darren Mar-Elia, shares highlights on what's new in Group Policy for Windows 10, some best practices for leveraging these new settings, and things you should think about with respect to overall Group Policy...

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