Mastering Active Directory

Group Policy best practices

In Sri Lanka, there is a common saying: eating curd from a knife. Curd with honey is amazing, but if you have to eat it using a sharpened knife, there is a risk you may cut your tongue if you're not careful. But it's still worth taking the risk (if you ever tasted curd and honey before). Group policies are also like that; they can do so many things but only if you use them correctly. In the Active Directory environment, Group Policy-related issues are the most painful and time-consuming task as there are so many things that can go wrong.

Here, I have listed a few tips that will be useful for Group Policy designing:

• Identify the best place to link the Group Policy: Group Policy can be linked to the site, domain, ...