Group Policy best practices

In Sri Lanka, there is a common saying for explaining risky action: eating curd from a knife. Curd with honey is amazing, but if you have to eat it using a sharpened knife, there is a risk that you may cut your tongue. But it's still worth taking the risk (if you have ever tasted curd and honey before). Group policies are also like that; they can do so many useful things, but only if you use them correctly. In the Active Directory environment, Group Policy-related issues are the most painful and time-consuming troubleshooting tasks as there are so many things that can go wrong.

Here, I have listed a few tips that will be useful for designing group policies:

• Identify the best place to link the Group Policy: The Group Policy can be linked to the site, domain, or OU. Organizations have different Group Policy requirements that can also map with the aforementioned components. It is important to understand the best place in the hierarchy to...