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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)

Computer configuration policies

This Deploying Policy Settings chapter is all about, well, deploying policies. There are more than 5,000 unique policy settings available to choose from within any GPO, so this chapter will obviously not be a comprehensive covering of all available policy settings. What we are going to do is implement a handful of helpful and common policy settings, some from the Computer Configuration Policies, and later some from the User Configuration Policies. By walking through these step-by-step instructions, you will be equipped to take the same procedures, combine them with a little search-engine browsing, and be able to configure anything you can dream up via Group Policy.

Idle-time lockout policy

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