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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)

Deploying Policy Settings

In this chapter, we will be discussing Policies. We are finally ready to talk about and look at actual policy settings within actual Group Policy Objects. As you have seen, much discussion and learning needs to have taken place to understand the management of policies and the options that exist for issuing and filtering those policies. It's kind of like learning how to lasso a wild horse before stepping into the arena next to one. We can't go all willy-nilly creating GPOs and filling them with policy settings until we have learned to control those policies, which is what we have been doing thus far. With great power comes great responsibility, right?

Of course, we have been working within a test lab environment during this reading, so let's blow things up! Of course, we're not really going to do that but we don't need to be nearly...