Implementing the GPO baseline in Active Directory
This recipe provides information on how to implement the created baselines from the previous chapter into your company Active Directory.
Getting ready
The previous recipes should be finished before proceeding with this one.
How to do it...
The overall process of starting with the second recipe Preparing for the creation of a compliance baseline, moving to the third recipe Creating a compliance baseline to ensure system security, and finishing with this recipe is summarized in the following diagram:
To use the created GPO Baseline and implement it into your company's AD, open the GPMC console and navigate to the GPO where you want to import the GPO baseline settings. If you have not already created a GPO, you will need to do so. Be aware that the password policy is different from other policies, because it has to be applied to the default domain policy unless the AD DS fine-grained password policy is used. Refer to the There's more&...
