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This SearchWinIT.com guide introduces you to Microsoft Group Policy, explains best practices and pitfalls to avoid, and provides troubleshooting help and advice. You'll find Group Policy articles, tutorials, tips, tools, white papers, expert advice and more to pump up your Group Policy know-how quickly. Drop us an email to let me know what other learning guides you'd like to see on SearchWinIT.com.
Microsoft: "Group Policy is one of the key management technologies provided for change and configuration management in Microsoft Windows operating systems. Administrators use Group Policy to specify options for managed configurations for groups of computers and users. Group Policy includes options for registry-based policy settings, security settings, software installation, scripts, folder redirection, Remote Installation Services, and Internet Explorer maintenance."
A defintiion of Group Policy Objects (GPO). This white paper introduces Windows Server 2003 Group Policy, a key feature of the IntelliMirror management technologies. This guide breaks down the basics of GPOs, and offers helpful tips for managing them and keeping them secure. The Microsoft Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) is the new solution for Group Policy management that helps you manage your enterprise more cost-effectively. This white paper describes six scenarios for using Group Policy to manage users' desktop environments. This page addresses key areas of Group Policy and provides links to more information.
Active Directory is Microsoft's trademarked directory service, and an integral part of the Windows Server architecture. This learning guide offers a wealth of information to get you up-to-speed quickly. There are three basic types of profiles: local, roaming and mandatory. Each type come with its own challenges -- and you better be familiar with them before the unexpected strikes. This chapter covers folder management, default profiles, migrations, cross-forest trusts and more. This chapter download offers an extensive run-down of various GPO-related problems and hands-on solutions to everything from GPO backup issues to applying stubborn GPO security filters. This book provides the foundation you need to understand and deploy Group Policy within Windows Server 2003. This white paper includes detailed information about Group Policy processing as well as many best practices useful to the Group Policy administrator.
We've gathered together our best Active Directory administration and management resources to help you get the most out of all the new AD features and services. Tips on using Group Policy to create custom policy templates to deploy features missing in Windows NT, such as Automatic Windows Updates or Windows Firewall settings. This chapter offers the inside scoop on little-known tools and methodologies, along with helpful tips and tricks on efficient Group Policy management. A PowerPoint presentation for understanding Microsoft Group Policy. Laura Hunter breaks down the use of GPOs within Active Directory. When Windows Server 2003 is used to establish an Active Directory-based network, there are two default GPOs: the default domain GPO and the default domain controller GPO. This article recommends several ways to improve upon the default settings in these two GPOs. A brief tip on how to create a Group Policy Object (GPO) to offer remote assistance to other LAN users. Information on setting policies to define and maintain a particular Microsoft Office 2003 configuration on user computers. With Group Policy Objects in Windows, there is a "Hide these specified drives in My Computer" option that lets you hide specific drives. However, it may be necessary to hide only certain drive, but retain access to others. You can open Group Policy in several ways, depending on the action that you want to perform and the object to which you want to apply it. The ways in which you can open Group Policy are described in this table. Expert Derek Melber explains how to customize Registry settings to ice the Active Directory cake with newfound power and flexibility.
Windows provides administrators with several different utilities that can be used for configuring computer security throughout an enterprise. This article discusses these utilities and provides some usage guidelines. You should always run Group Policy on your Active Directory-based systems. If you don't, plenty of attacks are just waiting to happen inside your network. Group Policy considerations can't be left out of the equation when addressing Active Directory security. Expert Derek Melber gives you an idea of some things to think about when securing Active Directory. How to use Group Policy Objects (GPO) to protect your Windows computers from insecure anonymous connections.
A rundown of expert-preferred tools and procedures for troubleshooting Microsoft Group Policy. Get Group Policy help from others who have been there at this knowledgebase from Microsoft. This technical white paper explains how IT administrators can troubleshoot Microsoft Windows 2000 Group Policy. This guide provides a framework for troubleshooting Group Policy in an Active Directory environment, including checklists for quick fixes, a summary of troubleshooting tools, flowcharts for root cause analysis and more. Expert Gary Olsen walks through the basics of the Userenv.log file and shares some useful case studies that illustrate how to use Userenv to debug problems involving the user environment.
Find out what others are downloading with this list of most popular Group Policy downloads. The Microsoft Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) with Service Pack 1 (SP1) unifies management of Group Policy across the enterprise. The GPMC consists of a MMC snap-in and a set of programmable interfaces for managing Group Policy.
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