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Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition
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Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

by Dishan Francis
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced
786 pages
20h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Group Policy template

When we looked at the Group Policy capabilities, we saw that they can be used to publish applications, run startup/shutdown scripts, and more. From the AD object's point of view, all of these settings are attributes and all of these files and scripts need to be saved in a centralized location. Instead of saving them in an AD database, the system saves all of these policy-related files and settings in the SYSVOL folder. The default path for the Group Policy template (GPT) data is \\rebeladmin.com\SYSVOL\rebeladmin.com\Policies. Here, rebeladmin.com can be replaced with your domain's fully qualified domain name (FQDN).

Inside the policy folder, there are two subfolders called Machine and User. These folders contain ...

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ISBN: 9781789800203