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

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

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 inheritance

Any Group Policy that is applied to the upper level of the structure is inherited in the lower level. The order of the inherited policies is decided by the LSDOU model that we looked at in the Group Policy processing section. Group Policy inheritance for each OU can be reviewed using the Group Policy Management MMC.

To view the inheritance data, first, click on the OU and then click on the Group Policy Inheritance tab:

Figure 10.7: Group Policy Inheritance

The Group Policy inheritance details can also be viewed by using the Get-GPInheritance PowerShell cmdlet. As an example, the same information listed in the preceding screenshot can be viewed using the following command:

Get-GPInheritance -Target "OU=Users,OU=Europe,DC=rebeladmin,DC=com"

In this example, I have one site-linked Group Policy called Site 1. There are two domain-linked group policies called Root 1 and Root 2. I also have an OU-linked Group Policy called Test...