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 Group Policy Preferences Drive Mappings, which is used by organizations large and small to map user drives at logon, and is largely replacing traditional ...
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Today we released an updated version of our widely used GPO Compare product. The 2.5 release brings some cool new features and improvements over 2.0, including:
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In this video, Darren Mar-Elia, SDM Software’s CTO and Founder, demonstrates the SDM Software GPO Exporter product, a tool that quickly and easily document your Group Policy Environment. Whether you are trying to discover an existing environment, find overlapping or redundant settings to prepare for a GPO cleanup, or just need to know where a particular setting is coming from, the Exporter makes the job easy. And with the PowerShell ...
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In this video, Darren Mar-Elia, SDM Software’s CTO and Founder, demonstrates the SDM Software GPO Compare product, a tool for being able to perform actions such as comparing group policy objects across your Windows enterprise network and creating reports about GPOs. GPO Compare greatly improves the manageability of group policy.
This Darren Mar-Elia CTO and Founder of SDM Software and the GPOGUY.com website. SDM Software is the leader in solutions for Group Policy Management and today I’m going to walk you through a quick demo of our innovative GPO Compare tool. GPO Compare let’s you compare live or backed up GPO’s and provides a lot of great interactive functionality for quickly finding GPO differences. It works against one or more trusted AD domains and let’s you generate nicely formatted reports in PDF or Excel for showing to management. There is also a PowerShell interface that let’s you do command line comparisons and manipulation of that difference data. So let’s take a tour through the product now.
I’m going to go ahead and choose to compare two live GPO’s. I’m going to browse my current active directory domain and go down and choose for example the default domain controller’s policy and I think I will compare that to the default domain policy in my domain. If I go ahead and run the comparison you will see it goes out, talks to my domain and grab those GPO’s and prepares a difference report for them. I could have also chosen to do comparison between a live GPO and a GPMC back up or two GPMC back ups, this lets me be able to compare live GPOs versus GPO back ups from un-trusted domains so lets go ahead and scroll up to the top of each tree and as you can see we have got some differences here.
The metadata section is the kind of general information related to the GPO’s such as its version modified time where it ...
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