Introduction
Group Policy includes policy settings that affect both users and computers. The settings under Computer Configuration control how the computer is configured. The settings under User Configuration control the user’s log-on session. Settings configured for a computer are processed first when the computer starts, followed by the user configuration settings when the user logs…
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…
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…
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…
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…
