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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By : Steve Miles
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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By: Steve Miles

Overview of this book

Written by an Azure MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer with 20 years of experience in data center infrastructure, this AZ-800 study guide is an essential preparation tool for administrators who want to take the exam and acquire key skills that will help them thrive in their careers. This book will guide you through all the ways Windows Server can be used to manage hybrid solutions on-premises and in the cloud, starting with deploying and managing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments. You’ll then dive into managing virtual machines and containers and progress to implementing and managing an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure. The later parts of the book focus on managing storage and file services, concluding with a detailed overview of all the knowledge needed to pass the AZ-800 exam with practical examples throughout the chapters. In the final chapter, you’ll be able to test your understanding of the topics covered with the help of practice exams to make sure that you’re completely prepared for the contents and structure of the exam. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the knowledge, both practical and conceptual, that's required to administer Windows Server hybrid core infrastructure confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Hybrid Identity
6
Part 2: Hybrid Networking
9
Part 3: Hybrid Storage
12
Part 4: Hybrid Compute
18
Part 5: Exam Prep
19
Chapter 14: Exam Preparation Practice Tests

The order of processing for GPOs

As we learned in the previous section, GPOs can be linked to an AD site, domain, or OU and will be applied to any user or computer object in that container.

Each GPO will be processed in the following order of inheritance:

  1. Local policy
  2. Site-level linked GPO
  3. Domain-level linked GPO
  4. OU-level linked GPO

The following illustration aims to outline the order of linked GPO processing:

Figure 3.7 – Domain GPO processing order

The settings applied to the user and computer objects will be the combined effect of policies linked at each level, creating a Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP). There can be multiple GPOs linked at each container level.

When one GPO has the same policy setting as a different value to another linked GPO, there will be a conflict; for example, prevent shutdown may be enabled in a site GPO, but the same setting might have a value of disabled in a GPO linked to a lower container...