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Windows Server 2003 Security: A Technical Reference
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Windows Server 2003 Security: A Technical Reference

by Roberta Bragg
May 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1176 pages
28h 24m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Best Practices for Group Policy

The following best practices should be used for Group Policy:

  • Use block inheritance, no override, and loopback sparingly. Their use makes the results of GPO application difficult to predict.

  • Limit the number of GPOs applied to user and computer accounts. The more policies that are applied, the harder it is to determine what will happen, and the longer policy application may take.

  • Do not use GPOs to do extensive file system and registry ACL assignment. Security settings in a GPO are applied every 16 hours. If these permissions are extensive, in a large enterprise, they can increase replication latency and possibly have a significant impact on DC performance.

  • Use implicit deny where possible instead of explicit deny. ...

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