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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)

Disabling IPv6 via Group Policy

IPv6 is the future! Well, not exactly. While IPv6 is pretty important to internet traffic, because we are legitimately running out of addresses in the IPv4 world, a company's internal network is a different story. I have heard the warnings about moving to IPv6 for many years, and yet it is extremely rare that I run into any network that is actually using it inside of their buildings. Why is that? Because it is just not necessary in most cases. IPv6 has always been touted as having enough address space so that every device in the entire world could have its own globally-unique IPv6 address, but the implication in that statement is that companies would actually allow their devices to be connected directly to the internet using these globally-routable addresses. The level of trust required here is simply too great. Instead, we hide our internal...