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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

Starter GPOs

In your work with Group Policy so far, you have probably noticed the phrase "Starter GPO". Every time that you click to create a new GPO, one of the options on that screen is to select a Source Starter GPO, but the option is initially grayed out. What is that thing?

Starter GPOs are sort of like GPO templates. You, as the primary Group Policy administrator, have the ability to create these special GPOs, called Starter GPOs, and then when junior-level administrators need to build out a GPO containing settings, they can look through the list of Starter GPOs and select one of these preconfigured policies that you put together. This gives you the ability to hand off the grunt work part of creating policies, while ensuring that the settings you always want configured are implemented inside the GPOs from the start. You are providing them with a starting point...

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