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…
What you’ll learn:
Active Directory authentication and authorization are security processes. These processes are necessary in any environment so that the resources of an environment are not misused by anyone. In this article, we will take a look at what is authentication and authorization in an AD environment, and how AD tackles these process. Before going further, let’s take a look…
Managing Active Directory Local Users and Groups
February 4, 2021
Local User Management deals with creating, managing, and securing user and group accounts that are stored locally on a Windows computer. Local user accounts are specific to a computer. Local Users and Groups is a part of the collection of tools that an administrator can use to manage single local computers as well as remote computers. Administrators can set permissions and rights on a local user…
Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) – Part II
February 4, 2021
In part Iof Active Directory Users and Computers, we introduced the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) snap-in. We also saw a list of tasks an administrator can perform from the ADUC console and described how to perform a few basic tasks. In this part, we will look at some Active Directory advanced features that will come in handy for an administrator managing users…
Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) - An introduction and installation guide
February 4, 2021
Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) is a common tool used by administrators to carry out daily tasks and much more in Active Directory AD. Some of the tasks an administrator can perform with the help of this MMC snap-in are as follows:
Create and manage AD objects, such as users, computers, groups, and contacts, along with their attributes.
Create Organizational Units (OU)…
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…
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…
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…
