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Mastering Windows Group Policy

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Group Policy Control and secure your Active Directory environment with Group Policy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789347395
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
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Preface 1. Group Policy - The Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) 3. Daily Tasks in Group Policy 4. Advanced Filtering of Group Policy Objects 5. Deploying Policy Settings 6. Group Policy Preferences 7. Group Policy as a Security Mechanism 8. Group Policy Maintenance 9. Group Policy Troubleshooting 10. PowerShell for Group Policy Administration 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

GPO version numbers

Troubleshooting Group Policy is often a matter of investigation on the client side, then making corresponding changes inside the server infrastructure (GPMC). Occasionally, you may suspect that something goofy is going on at the server level, perhaps that updates or changes that you make to GPOs are not being properly put into place. Group Policy has a bit of a change-management procedure built in, where it keeps track of version numbers for each GPO inside Active Directory.

These GPO version numbers are visible by selecting any GPO inside GPMC, and then visiting the Details tab. Here, I have created a brand-new GPO that does not yet contain any settings, and navigated my way into the Details tab immediately after GPO creation:

You can see that there are separate version numbers for User and Computer. These numbers are tracking changes made inside the User...

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