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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

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Sometimes Preferences are individual settings and are very straightforward to put into place. Other times, when you open up a section of the Group Policy editor to take a look at a setting, you will find a collection of numerous settings, sort of like a Preference "package" throwing many different options onto one screen. Here you can see that I have poked my way into some user configuration preferences, and chose to create a new Folder Options package. Upon choosing the option to create New Folder Options, I am presented with many different options, all of which are underlined in a lime-green color. What in the world do those lines mean? Take a look:

When you come across these preference packages inside your GPO, it is important to understand the lines, and as you'll learn in soon sometimes you will find circles as well. These lines and circles...

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