I just wanted to take this time to wish everyone who is celebrating their new year tonight (or maybe already has celebrated!) a happy new year. 2008 should be a great year! 2007 brought many cool things, including the release of SDM Software’s first product in the GPExpert Troubleshooting Pak, as well as Windows Vista adoption hitting the mainstream. PowerShell also hit the big time in 2007, and I expect more great things from it going forward.
2008 should be better than ever! In the world of Group Policy, Microsoft will ship the Group Policy Preferences (nee DesktopStandard PolicyMaker) product early in 2008, which will open up a whole new area of desktop configuration management using Group Policy.
And, I look forward to bringing you more of what SDM Software has in store for Group Policy in 2008, including new and innovative products for better managing Group Policy backup and recovery, simplified policy-based desktop configuration management, new PowerShell stuff and more!
Best of luck to everyone in the New Year!
Darren
Tags: Group Policy, PowerShell, SDM Software, Microsoft
DEC
About the Author:
Darren Mar-Elia is CTO & Founder of SDM Software, Inc. Darren has over 25 years of IT and Software experience in the Microsoft technology area, including serving as a Director in Infrastructure at Charles Schwab, CTO of Windows Management Solutions at Quest Software, and Sr. Director of Product Engineering at DesktopStandard. He has been a Microsoft MVP in Group Policy technology for the last 6 years and has written and spoken on Active Directory, Group Policy and PowerShell topics frequently over the years. He maintains the popular Group Policy resource web site at www.gpoguy.com and has been a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine since 1997. He has written and contributed to twelve books on Windows. Darren also speaks frequently at conferences on Windows infrastructure topics.