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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)

GPO permissions via PowerShell

The application of GPOs is all about permissions. When Group Policy processes on a computer or a user, it basically tries to apply everything all the time, and the only reason you don't receive every setting from every GPO on your machine is because the permissions surrounding that GPO have been stacked in a way that you only receive the items that your Group Policy admins have deemed necessary to your user account or your workstation. We have already worked with a myriad of different permission tiers through the GPMC, now let's take a peek into the GPPermissions cmdlets that are available inside PowerShell in order to modify GPO permissions from a command-line interface.

Viewing current GPO permissions

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