Chapter exercise – examples of GPOs for system admins

In this chapter exercise, you will get acquainted with some GPOs that may be of interest to system admins:

• Renaming the administrator account
• Disabling the guest account
• Blocking Microsoft accounts
• Prohibiting access to the Control Panel and PC settings
• Denying access to all removable media drives

Renaming the administrator account

To rename the administrator account using the GPO in Windows Server 2019, complete the following steps:

1. Navigate to the following path to reach the GPO: Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\SecuritySettings\Local Policies\Security Options
2. Double click at Accounts: Rename administrator account
3. In the Properties dialog box...