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Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server Automation with PowerShell Cookbook Powerful ways to automate and manage Windows administrative tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568457
Length 674 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Thomas Lee Thomas Lee
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing and Configuring PowerShell 7 2. Introducing PowerShell 7 FREE CHAPTER 3. Exploring Compatibility with Windows PowerShell 4. Using PowerShell 7 in the Enterprise 5. Exploring .NET 6. Managing Active Directory 7. Managing Networking in the Enterprise 8. Implementing Enterprise Security 9. Managing Storage 10. Managing Shared Data 11. Managing Printing 12. Managing Hyper-V 13. Managing Azure 14. Troubleshooting with PowerShell 15. Managing with Windows Management Instrumentation 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Deploying PowerShell group policies

Group policies are groups of policies you can deploy that control a user or computer environment. The policies define what a given user can and cannot do on a given Windows computer. For example, you can create a Group Policy Object (GPO) to set policies that define what screen saver to use, allow the user to see the Control Panel, or specify a default PowerShell execution policy. There are over 2,500 individual settings that you can deploy.

After you create a GPO and specify the policies to deploy, you can apply it to any OU in your domain. An OU is a container object within AD that can contain both other OUs and leaf objects such as AD user, computer, or group objects. You use OUs to support both the deployment of GPOs and the delegation of AD administration.

You can apply a GPO to an OU, but also to the domain or to an AD site. Additionally, you can specify whether policies within a given GPO are to apply to users, computers, or both...

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