Mastering Group Policy On Windows Server 2016

Tags: Windows Server

An IT person's guide to managing Active Directory Users and Computers with Group Policy

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.7

- Create GPOs
- Troubleshoot GPO processing
- Design Active Directory structures to facilitate group policy processing

What you'll learn

Create GPOs

Troubleshoot GPO processing

Design Active Directory structures to facilitate group policy processing

Add third party settings into group policy

Control user and computer settings

including account policies

security settings

folder redirection

desktop settings

application settings

and many more

* Requirements

* Basic understanding of Server Operating Systems
* An understanding of Active Directory Domain Services

Description

Mastering Group Policy on Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2016 is designed to teach Group Policy management to those that need to utilize group policy and other Active Directory tools to manage users and computers within their environments or to anyone that wants to able to understand group policy processing and capabilities at an Active Directory level.

In this course you will gain a deep understanding for different considerations of Active Directory design that can impact how group policies are applied. You will gain insight into the decisions made to design Forest, Domain and Organizational Unit structures to ensure that they allow group policies to be effectively applied. You will also learn to plan for various considerations- for example, some users accounts of computer accounts may need to be exempt from a group policy object, you will learn the options that are available for that type of scenario.

This course will cover the following topics, and more.

· Group Policy processing order with Active Directory

· Altering the processing order with Active Directory

· Software deployment

· Central store design

· Administrative templates

· Security settings

· Firewall management

· Password polices

· User rights assignments

· Preferences

· App locker restrictions

· Folder redirection

· Starter GPO design

· Scripts

· Delegation

· Refresh intervals

· Troubleshooting GPO issues

· Backup/restore/copy/import

Who this course is for:

Those that need to increase their knowledge of group policy management
Those that are new to Active Directory administration
Those that will plan and design organizational unit structures

Course content

20 sections • 41 lectures

Introduction 7 lectures

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