Microsoft’s Group Policy product team recently posted a blog announcing that they will be adding PowerShell support to Windows 7 for various Group Policy management tasks, such as those things you can do in GPMC scripts today. In addition, they are adding PowerShell support for modifying registry policy, which is a good thing, though the approach they are using is not the way I would have done it.
In any event, I think this is good news for Group Policy administrators. Of course, if you want to be able to leverage this today, you can download our free PowerShell GPMC cmdlets for today’s operating systems or take a look at our GPExpert Scripting Toolkit, our commercial product that supports automation against many Group Policy areas, including registry, security, software installation and more.
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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.