Active Directory Policies

GPO Delegation

March 3, 2021
Introduction : Group Policy helps administrators with centralized control and configuration of user settings, operating systems, and applications. A Group Policy Object (GPO) is a collection of Group Policy settings that determine how a system appears and behaves for a certain group of users. GPO delegation in AD allows you to offer end-users permission to execute certain Group Policy…
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Active Directory Policies

GPO security filtering and WMI filtering: An explanation

March 3, 2021
What you will learn: GPO security filtering vs WMI filtering – where to apply what? Fret not, let’s take a step back. Group Policies can be assigned at the OU, site, or domain level. However, there might be occasions where you might not want to apply the group policies for a select few computers or users. This is where security filtering and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)…
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Active Directory Policies

Windows Group Policy Object Inheritance: Explained

March 3, 2021
Introduction: In Active Directory (AD), there is a significant feature called Group Policy that allows you to implement specific settings for users and computers. Administrators can apply hundreds of different settings to objects in AD by establishing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) and associating the GPO to domains, sites, and organizational units (OUs). Ironically, the versatility of Group…
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Active Directory Fundamentals

What are Domain Controllers?

March 2, 2021
 What are Domain Controllers (DC)?  The computer machines that function as servers in the domain can either be a member server or a DC. A member server belongs to a particular domain, but it does not authenticate the users of that domain. There is no data about the entire AD network installed in it. DCs on the other hand, are servers responsible for allowing access to domain resources. It…
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Group Policy Backup

February 4, 2021
What you will learn: Group policies are critical pieces of instructions in an Active Directory environment used to configure a variety of advanced settings that can be applied to objects in the network. A set of Group Policy configurations are bundled as Group Policy Objects (GPO) which can then be applied to objects. IT administrators take weeks and months to create GPOs that are customized to…
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Password Setting Objects (PSO): Explained

February 4, 2021
Administrators are well aware of the fact that usersand groups occupy different levels of their organization’s hierarchy and do not all have the same privileges. Some accounts demand a stronger password policy than others for obvious security reasons. Fine-grained password policy and PSO Fine-grained password policy (FGPP) brings with it the capability of setting…
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