Introduction to Group Policy

Topics covered:

What GP is

Overview of capabilities

Local vs. domain-based GPOs

How it's processed

Security filtering and linking

GPMC and the GPO Editor

RSOP

Introduction to GPMC, Part 2

Topics covered:

Drill down into security filtering and delegation

Delegating GPO creation

GPO settings report

RSOP Modeling and Results

Introduction to GPMC, Part 3

Topics covered:

Backup and Restore

Copy and Import

Using Migration Tables to import across forests

GPMC Reporting

Understanding Domain Account Policy

Topics covered:

The Default Domain Policy

Differences between domain and local account policy

How to define domain and local account policy

Introduction to GPMC, Part 1

Topics covered:

OS support

Loading multiple forests

Search

Linking vs. creating GPOs

Container properties

GPO properties

WMI filters

Processing flags

Basic Group Policy Troubleshooting

Topics covered:

Using the GPMC GP Results wizard to troubleshoot GP Problems

Enabling verbose userenv logging

Saving and reading the userenv.log file

Using Administrative Template Policy

Topics covered:

Setting Policies using Administrative Templates

How ADM Files are managed

Understanding the different Administrative Template states