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Windows Server 2022 & Powershell All-in-One For Dummies
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Windows Server 2022 & Powershell All-in-One For Dummies

by Sara Perrott
March 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
784 pages
18h 19m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 2

Setting Group Policy

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Understanding how Group Policy works in an Active Directory domain

check Starting the Group Policy Editor to work with Group Policy Objects

check Performing computer management with Group Policy

check Achieving user configuration with Group Policy

check Viewing Resultant Set of Policy to troubleshoot issues with Group Policy

Making settings changes on one or two systems isn’t that bad. But imagine you work in an enterprise with 200 systems. Or 2,000 systems. Suddenly making settings changes on individual machines becomes an impossible task. This is where Group Policy comes into play.

Group Policy allows you create a policy and then target that policy to users or systems within organizational units (OUs), security groups, or even on an individual basis. Group Policy is a very powerful way to enforce your organization’s requirements across all Active Directory domain joined systems. Common items that get configured by Group Policy are

  • Password policies
  • User ...
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