In the vein of interesting desktop configuration management tools, the company that created the product ScriptStart, Entrigue Systems, announced that it is going to be open sourcing a version of their logon script based desktop configuration tool. While this is not a Group Policy-based solution, it nonetheless has some interesting capabilities similar to GP, like the ability to do Folder Redirection, IE config, Office config and drive mapping. In reading the press release, it appears that they still plan to offer a commercial version but will create a community around the free product for folks to contribute to. This is cool. I’m still partial to GP as a scaleable and robust way of managing desktop configuration but this is nice to see this capability going open source.
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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.