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Mastering Windows Group Policy

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Group Policy Control and secure your Active Directory environment with Group Policy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789347395
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
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Preface 1. Group Policy - The Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) 3. Daily Tasks in Group Policy 4. Advanced Filtering of Group Policy Objects 5. Deploying Policy Settings 6. Group Policy Preferences 7. Group Policy as a Security Mechanism 8. Group Policy Maintenance 9. Group Policy Troubleshooting 10. PowerShell for Group Policy Administration 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

User configuration policies

As helpful as computer configuration settings can be for making sure that certain standards are met on all of the machines inside your domain, the User Configuration policies are where the rubber meets the road for user capabilities and functionality. Here, we will cover a handful of configuration settings that are commonly used and very useful when deciding how strict you want to be with your workforce.

Remove the shutdown button

A simple yet powerful GPO setting that is quite common to see in corporate environments is the removal of the Shut down and Restart functionality of Windows computers. This can be a critical thing inside an RDS or VDI environment, as you certainly wouldn't want users...

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