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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

Detecting slow links

LAN connections are fast. Usually, when plugged in to the network in your office, you are connected back to the servers (including Domain Controllers) at a 1 GB link speed, give or take. This kind of speed means that you can interact with Group Policy very quickly, and any GPOs that need to come down the pipe to your computer will process ultra fast.

What about slower connections? Can you really expect a 700 MB application-installation package to successfully install over a VPN connection? This package is going to attempt to install during login, and that installation could take a long time. I hope you had plans to go outside and run a half marathon after typing in your password, because your computer may not get to the desktop for a while.

Domain-joined computers that are reaching into Group Policy self-determine when they are on a fast link or a slow link...

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