Group policy : fundamentals, security, and the managed desktop, second edition

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Group Policy; Contents; Introduction; Group Policy Defined; This Book and Beyond; Chapter 1: Group Policy Essentials; Getting Ready to Use This Book; Getting Started with Group Policy; Group Policy Entities and Policy Settings; The Categories of Group Policy; Active Directory and Local Group Policy; Understanding Local Group Policy; Group Policy and Active Directory; Linking Group Policy Objects; Final Thoughts on Local GPOs; An Example of Group Policy Application; Examining the Resultant Set of Policy; At the Site Level; At the Domain Level; At the OU Level; Bringing It All Together Group Policy, Active Directory, and the GPMCImplementing the GPMC on Your Management Station; Creating a One-Stop-Shop MMC; Group Policy 101 and Active Directory; Active Directory Users and Computers vs. GPMC; Adjusting the View within the GPMC; The GPMC-centric View; Our Own Group Policy Examples; More about Linking and the Group Policy Objects Container; Applying a Group Policy Object to the Site Level; Applying Group Policy Objects to the Domain Level; Applying Group Policy Objects to the OU Level; Testing Your Delegation of Group Policy Management Understanding Group Policy Object Linking DelegationGranting OU Admins Access to Create New Group Policy Objects; Creating and Linking Group Policy Objects at the OU Level; Creating a New Group Policy Object Affecting Computers in an OU; Moving Computers into the Human Resources Computers OU; Verifying Your Cumulative Changes; Final Thoughts; Chapter 2: Managing Group Policy with the GPMC; Common Procedures with the GPMC; Raising or Lowering the Precedence of Multiple Group Policy Objects; Understanding GPMC's Link Warning; Stopping Group Policy Objects from Applying; Block Inheritance The Enforced FunctionSecurity Filtering and Delegation with the GPMC; Filtering the Scope of Group Policy Objects with Security; User Permissions on Group Policy Objects; Granting Group Policy Object Creation Rights in the Domain; Special Group Policy Operation Delegations; Who Can Create and Use WMI Filters?; Performing RSoP Calculations with the GPMC; What's-Going-On Calculations with Group Policy Results; What-If Calculations with Group Policy Modeling; Searching and Commenting Group Policy Objects and Policy Settings; Searching for GPO Characteristics Filtering Inside a GPO for Policy SettingsComments for GPOs and Policy Settings; Starter GPOs; Creating a Starter GPO; Editing a Starter GPO; Leveraging a Starter GPO; Delegating Control of Starter GPOs; Wrapping Up and Sending Starter GPOs; Should You Use Microsoft's Pre-created Starter GPOs?; Back Up and Restore for Group Policy; Backing Up Group Policy Objects; Restoring Group Policy Objects; Backing Up and Restoring Starter GPOs; Backing Up and Restoring WMI Filters; Backing Up and Restoring IPsec Filters; Migrating Group Policy Objects between Domains; Basic Interdomain Copy and Import