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Windows Server 2016 Cookbook

By : Jordan Krause
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Windows Server 2016 Cookbook

By: Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

This hands-on Cookbook is stuffed full of practical recipes that will help you handle the essential administrative tasks in Windows Server 2016. You’ll start by familiarizing yourself with the look and feel of Windows Server 2016, and will then learn how to navigate through some daily tasks using the graphical interface. You will see how to compose optimal Group Policies and facilitate task automation with PowerShell 5.0 scripting. We will also take a look at the functions available to provide remote network access to your traveling users, and explore the much anticipated Nano Server and Hyper-V built-in integration support that is brand new in Windows Server 2016. By the end of this book, you will know how to take your Windows Server 2016-powered server and turn it into any common infrastructure role that might be required in your company.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Windows Server 2016 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Viewing the settings currently enabled inside a GPO


So far we have been creating GPOs and putting settings into them, so we are well aware of what is happening with each of our policies. Many times, though, you enter a new environment that contains a lot of existing policies, and you may need to figure out what is happening in those policies. I have had many cases where I install a new server, join it to the domain, and it breaks. It doesn't necessarily nose dive, but some component won't work properly or I can't flow network traffic to it for some reason. Something like that can be hard to track down. Since the issue seemed to happen during the domain join process, I suspect that some kind of policy from an existing GPO has been applied to my new server and is having a negative effect on it. Let's take a look inside Group Policy at the easiest way to display the settings that are contained within each GPO.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we only need access to the Group Policy Management Console...