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Mastering Windows Group Policy

By : Jordan Krause
5 (1)
Book Image

Mastering Windows Group Policy

5 (1)
By: Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

This book begins with a discussion of the core material any administrator needs to know in order to start working with Group Policy. Moving on, we will also walk through the process of building a lab environment to start testing Group Policy today. Next we will explore the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) and start using the powerful features available for us within that interface. Once you are well versed with using GPMC, you will learn to perform and manage the traditional core tasks inside Group Policy. Included in the book are many examples and walk-throughs of the different filtering options available for the application of Group Policy settings, as this is the real power that Group Policy holds within your network. You will also learn how you can use Group Policy to secure your Active Directory environment, and also understand how Group Policy preferences are different than policies, with the help of real-world examples. Finally we will spend some time on maintenance and troubleshooting common Group Policy-related issues so that you, as a directory administrator, will understand the diagnosing process for policy settings. By the end of the book, you will be able to jump right in and use Group Policy to its full potential.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Modifying an existing GPO

Group Policy is pretty pointless without plugging settings into GPOs. (That's a lot of words that begin with the letter P!) So one critical skillset needed for Group Policy administration is familiarity with modifying GPO settings. So far, we are still working with the items that are pre-built into our fresh installation of Group Policy, but that will soon change. As a general practice, you don't usually touch or change the Default Domain Policy, but something that is commonly put into place here is generalized password settings that you want applied to all users within your domain. We will update those settings to meet our current password needs.

Using the newest GPMC

Our test lab is running...