As your Active Directory and Group Policy environments grow and expand, you will inevitably have multiple GPOs applying across the various tiers in order to make sure your workstations, servers, and users have all of the settings they need in order to stay safe and secure. Occasionally, you will have a need for a particular device or group of devices to step back from all of these rules and regulations, and be untouched by Group Policy settings. During my day job, I live on the Windows Server side of the IT house, and it is a very common occurrence that we are spinning up a new server for a particular role, and we want to make sure that this new server is not going to be immediately affected by a dozen GPOs as soon as we join it to the domain. Usually, when joining new client workstations to the domain, that is exactly what you want to happen—you...
Mastering Windows Group Policy
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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.
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Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Group Policy - The Basics
Group Policy Management Console (GPMC)
Daily Tasks in Group Policy
Advanced Filtering of Group Policy Objects
Deploying Policy Settings
Group Policy Preferences
Group Policy as a Security Mechanism
Group Policy Maintenance
Group Policy Troubleshooting
PowerShell for Group Policy Administration
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