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You're reading from Identity with Windows Server 2016: Microsoft 70-742 MCSA Exam Guide Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot identity services and Group Policy in Windows Server 2016

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781838555139

Length 232 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Windows Server

Concepts

IT Certification

Authors (2):

Sasha Kranjac

Vladimir Stefanovic

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Table of Contents (7) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing and Configuring Active Directory FREE CHAPTER

2. Managing and Maintaining Active Directory

3. Creating and Managing Group Policy

4. Understanding and Implementing Active Directory Certificate Services

5. Understanding and Implementing Federation and Rights Management

6. Assessements

Configuring Group Policy settings and preferences

In general, Group Policy is divided into two sets of settings that can be used to configure user and computer settings in domain environments: Administrative templates and Group Policy preferences. Administrative templates, also known as registry-based policies, provide most of the available GPO settings that modify specific registry keys. Registry-based policies are the simplest and best way to support the centralized management of policy settings. Group Policy preferences can, in general, be substituted by implementing scripts to configure settings. From Windows Server 2008, Group Policy preferences are part of Group Policies and allow you to deliver a lot of common settings, such as mapped drivers, printers, and registry changes.

In this section, you'll learn how to configure Administrative templates and Group Policy preference...

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Authors (2)

Vladimir Stefanovic

Vladimir Stefanovic is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and System Engineer with 10+ years of experience in IT industry. Over the IT career, Vladimir has worked in all areas of IT administration, from IT technician to current System Engineer position. As a lead System Engineer in Serbian IT company SuperAdmins and lead technician trainer in Admin Training Center, he successfully delivered a numerous of project and courses. He is also active conference speaker, with a long list of conferences like as MCT Summits (USA, Germany, Greece), ATD, WinDays, KulenDayz, Sinergija (Regional Conferences). He is a leader of a few user groups and active community member, with mission to share knowledge as much as possible.

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Sasha Kranjac

Sasha Kranjac has been recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director (RD), Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in two categories (Azure and Security), he is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), MCT Regional Lead, Certified EC-Council Instructor (CEI), a CompTIA Instructor, speaker at international conferences, user groups, and events, and a book author on cloud security, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and Windows Server. Sasha is the CEO of Kloudatech, an IT training and consulting company, a Microsoft Partner, an AWS Partner, and a CompTIA Authorized Delivery Partner, specialized in cybersecurity, cloud security architecture and IT training. They deliver high quality vendor and custom IT training and PowerClass Workshops internationally. He is also the CEO of Kranjac Consulting and Training, a consulting, training, and engineering company, specialized in civil engineering and CAD design.

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