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Mastering Active Directory

You're reading from   Mastering Active Directory Understand the Core Functionalities of Active Directory Services Using Microsoft Server 2016 and PowerShell

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787289352
Length 742 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Active Directory Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Active Directory Domain Services 2016 3. Designing Active Directory Infrastructure 4. Active Directory Domain Name System 5. Placing Operations Master Roles 6. Migrating to Active Directory 2016 7. Managing Active Directory Objects 8. Managing Users, Groups, and Devices 9. Designing the OU Structure 10. Managing Group Policies 11. Active Directory Services 12. Active Directory Certificate Services 13. Active Directory Federation Services 14. Active Directory Rights Management Services 15. Active Directory Security Best Practices 16. Advanced AD Management with PowerShell 17. Azure Active Directory Hybrid Setup 18. Active Directory Audit and Monitoring 19. Active Directory Troubleshooting

Group Policy inheritance

Any Group Policy applied in the upper level of the structure is inherited by a lower level. The order of the inherited policies is based on the LSDOU model that I have explained in a previous section. Group Policy inheritance for each OU can be reviewed using Group Policy Management MMC.

Once you click on the OU, click on the tab called Group Policy Inheritance:

The Group Policy inheritance details can also be viewed using the Get-GPInheritance cmdlet. So, the same information listed in the preceding figure 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 Users:

In the list, the first precedence...

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