At TechMentor last week, I got the chance to sit down with Darren Mar-Elia, President and CEO of SDM Software to talk about some of the problems associated with Windows Group Policy. A fantastic and no-added-cost feature you get with Active Directory, Group Policy is growing as a significant solution for controlling virtually every component of your desktop environment.

But Group Policies everything-for-everyone capabilities sometimes make it challenging to manage and hard to troubleshoot. So sometimes 3rd party add-on tools like those available from SDM Software are useful for making easy what can otherwise be challenging activities.

In this podcast, Darren and I talk about Group Policy, the features and issues associated with good GP targeting, and how intelligent 3rd party tools shine up one of Microsoft's best selling points for the WIndows environment.