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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)

Group Policy Modeling

You probably noticed another folder listed near the bottom of GPMC, labeled Group Policy Modeling. This is another wizard-driven interface that allows you to configure some fictitious options and create a model of what might happen to a user and computer, should the options that you select during the wizard become true. Basically, you can use this wizard to pretend that you are making changes to a user, a computer, an OU membership, a group membership, and so on, and then take a look at all of the GPO settings that would be put into place in the event that you actually made these changes in production.

While this modeling wizard won't give you a perfect answer that you can 100% rely upon, it is an interesting feature. After running through one of these models, the results presented will be similar to those of the Group Policy Results wizard.

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