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Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide

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Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide

Overview of this book

The Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide is designed to confirm what you already know, while also updating your knowledge of Windows 10. With its easy-to-follow guidance, you will quickly learn the user interface and discover steps to work efficiently in Windows 10 to rule out delays and obstacles. This book begins by covering various ways of installing Windows 10, followed by instructions on post-installation tasks. You will learn about the deployment of Windows 10 in Enterprise and also see how to configure networking in Windows 10. You’ll understand how to leverage Disk Management and Windows PowerShell to configure disks, volumes, and file system options. As you progress through the chapters, you will be able to set up remote management in Windows 10 and learn more about Windows update usage, behavior, and settings. You will also gain insights that will help you monitor and manage data recovery and explore how to configure authentication, authorization, and advanced management tools in Windows 10. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with enough knowledge to take the 70-698 exam and explore different study methods to improve your chances of passing the exam with ease.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Configuring Active Directory, including Group Policies


As you know, the Windows Server-based domain is a centralized environment. Everything revolves around the ADDS role, which, when installed and configured, establishes a hierarchical database known as AD that consists of objects. Typically, AD objects represent users, computers, peripheral devices, and network services. From the administration point of view, domain is a complex environment that requires additional tools that will help manage AD objects. One such option is Group Policy which enables limit restrictions to be established, both at a computer level and a user level. In general, group policies are preconfigured templates that control user behavior on computers, peripheral devices, and network applications across the organization's network. By default, group policies are stored in C:\Windows\SYSVOL\sysvol\domain\Policies on a domain controller.

Setting up a logon script via GPO

Group policies do not activate KMS clients, but they...