Active Directory Policies

Managing GPOs in Active Directory

March 3, 2021
What you will learn: Managing an Active Directory (AD) network can become a little cumbersome once the number of resources in the network becomes larger. There is a myriad of things that need to be controlled such as security permissions, software installation, desktop settings for users and computers, administrator privileges, and many more. This is where Group Policies and Group Policy…
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Active Directory Policies

Group Policy Objects

March 3, 2021
What is a Group policy object? A virtual group of policy settings is called a Group Policy Object (GPO). A GPO has a distinctive name, like a GUID (globally unique identifier). GPOs can be created like any other active directory object and are linked to a Site, domain, or OU in which the policy settings have to be applied. GPO settings are evaluated by clients using the hierarchical nature of…
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Active Directory Group Policy in a Nutshell

March 2, 2021
What you will learn: Managing an Active Directory (AD) network can become a little cumbersome once the number of resources in the network becomes larger. There is a myriad of things that need to be controlled such as security permissions, software installation, desktop settings for users and computers, administrator privileges, and many more. Group Policies make managing all these settings…
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Active Directory Group Policy

March 2, 2021
Introduction- What is Group Policy?    Group Policy is a security tool built into Microsoft Active Directory that gives network administrators access to a variety of advanced settings. Administrators can set up and manage user settings, operating systems, and applications from a single platform. Group Policies help strengthen the security of users and computers and guard against both insider…
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Active Directory Policies

March 2, 2021
The time and cost spent to organize, control, and maintain the IT infrastructure of an organization are very high. It is the IT administrator’s job to ensure that the employees of the organization have the latest software, adequate security settings, availability of files and folders, uniform desktop appearance in whichever machine they log on to, etc. It’s a tedious job, to say the…
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Managing GPOs with Group Policy Management Console

February 4, 2021
Group Policy Management Console: An Introduction The Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) is a one-stop solution for performing all the Group Policy functions an administrator has to deal with. This MMC snap-in provides all the information about Group Policies and allows one to view all the settings within a Group Policy Object (GPO). Many of the functions of the GPMC can also be scripted.
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Local Group Policy Editor

February 4, 2021
Group Policy in Active Directory (AD) simplifies the administrative burden and makes management a whole lot easier. When an administrator needs to control and configure settings on a local computer that is not part ofAD,settingsspecific to that computer can beconfigured in the Local Group Policy. Multiple Local Group Policy objects are an enhancement to Local Group…
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