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Group Policy Blog, by the "GPOGUY"-- Darren Mar-Elia

www.gpoguy.com www.sdmsoftware.com

March 2007 - Posts

Moving
As many of you know, I've started a Group Policy Management Solutions company called SDM Software . I've decided to transition my blog over to there, since it makes sense for me in the long run. So, if you are currently reading or subscribing to my blog Read More...
Issue with Win2003, SP2 & custom ADMs
One of the folks on my gptalk mailing list reported an issue with the new Windows 2003 SP2 and custom ADMs. Apparently if these custom ADMs are not terminated with a carriage return/line feed character, they will throw an Error 51: “Unexpected keyword.” Read More...
SDM Software & Special Operations Software announce strategic partnership
As I've mentioned here before,my company, SDM Software , is focused on making Group Policy a lot easier for folks to manage. Given the criticality of Group Policy as a security and desktop lockdown technology, making sure its healthy and functional has Read More...
Learn about Longhorn
The Windows IT Pro folks, whom I write for on occasion, are doing a Longhorn Roadshow this Spring to help folks get up to speed on the new server platform. There's also a cool contest where you test your skills about Longhorn to win a trip to Mexico. Read More...
new EFS assistant tool for better management of GP-based EFS
I thought this was pretty cool: http://blogs.technet.com/billcan/archive/2007/03/10/beta-version-of-tool-for-enforcing-efs-encryption-is-shipping-next-week.aspx Essentially a better tool for enforcing EFS encryption for your mobile users. EFS is Encrypted Read More...