You're reading from Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition Design, deploy, and protect Active Directory Domain Services for Windows Server 2022

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801070393

Length 780 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Active Directory Domain Services

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Dishan Francis

Preface

1. Active Directory Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Active Directory Domain Services 2022

3. Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure

4. Active Directory Domain Name System

5. Placing Operations Master Roles

6. Migrating to Active Directory 2022

7. Managing Active Directory Objects

8. Managing Users, Groups, and Devices

9. Designing the OU Structure

10. Managing Group Policies

11. Active Directory Services – Part 01

12. Active Directory Services – Part 02

13. Active Directory Certificate Services

14. Active Directory Federation Services

15. Active Directory Rights Management Services

16. Active Directory Security Best Practices

17. Advanced AD Management with PowerShell

18. Hybrid Identity

19. Active Directory Audit and Monitoring

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

Group Policy capabilities

Group Policy can be used to perform many different tasks in an infrastructure. Here, I have listed some of these capabilities:

Group Policy can be linked to sites, domains, and organization units. This allows us to match the Group Policy requirements with the Active Directory structure. However, Group policies cannot be applied to default containers in Active Directory.
Group Policy allows us to use security filtering to target specific groups, users, or computers.
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) filters are capable of filtering the AD objects based on criteria such as the OS version, roles, and system configuration. Group Policy allows us to use WMI filters for targeting.
The Group Policy Object (GPO) status can change based on operational requirements. If required, group policies can disable group policies completely, or disable user or computer settings individually.
Group Policy management tasks can be delegated...