Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

Chapter 10. Solution Collection 10: Implementing Change, Configuration, and Policies

In this chapter:

Scenarios, Pain, and Solution 636

10-1: Create a Change Control Workflow 637

10-2: Extend Role-Based Management to the Management of Change and Configuration 644

10-3: Implement Your Organization's Password and Account Lockout Policies 651

10-4: Implement Your Authentication and Active Directory Auditing Policies 662

10-5: Enforce Corporate Policies with Group Policy 669

10-6: Create a Delegated Group Policy Management Hierarchy 674

10-7: Testing, Piloting, Validating, and Migrating Policy Settings 679

10-8: No-Brainer Group Policy Tips 683

Change is, of course, inevitable in an organization. Today, agility is a corporate buzzword that implies the ability ...