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You Will Learn How To
Centrally manage workstations and servers with Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
Lock down user desktops and control computer configurations
Leverage techniques to target GPOs to specific clients
Create highly reliable and robust software deployment strategies
Enhance security with improved GPO features
Troubleshoot failures and optimise GPO performance
Course Benefits Maintaining highly reliable and secure Windows environments in a cost-effective manner is a challenge for many organisations. Group Policies provide the ability to centrally manage your workstation and server configurations while streamlining administrative tasks and reducing IT costs. This course provides the knowledge and skills you need to create and manage effective Group Policies.
Who Should Attend IT professionals who want to manage and administer Group Policies in a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory environment. A working knowledge of Windows Server 2003 AD or Course 960, "Windows Server 2008 Comprehensive Introduction", is assumed.
Hands-on Training Extensive hands-on exercises provide practical experience managing a Windows Server 2008 environment through Group Policies. Exercises include:
Establishing a central store and utilising starter GPOs
Applying computer and user configuration settings
Generating reports for diagnostic purposes
Writing WQL queries
Implementing robust software delivery mechanisms
Configuring core security settings
Converting role-based XML data into policy settings
Identifying and resolving failures
Utilising preferences to manipulate objects
Course Content
Harnessing the Power of Group Policies Introducing Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
Advantages of centralised administration
Investigating new features and functionality
Contrasting user and computer-based settings
Controlling computer configurations
Assigning software packages
Enforcing workstation security
Standardising computer settings
Managing user environments
Deploying software packages
Customising user configurations
Locking down user desktops with administrative templates
The Building Blocks of Group Policies Leveraging administrative templates
Analysing ADMX/ADML file structure
Implementing pre-designed templates and starter GPOs
Adding custom templates to extend functionality
Storing and containerising GPOs
Leveraging the central store
Maintaining availability through replication
Refreshing user and computer configurations
Regulating refresh intervals
Working with policy object versions
Invoking a policy refresh manually
Controlling the Deployment of GPOs Exploiting Scopes of Management (SOM)
Local
Sites
Domains
Organisational Units
Combining settings through inheritance
Resolving conflicts between GPO settings
Generating a Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP) report
Limiting GPO application to specific entities
Disabling GPOs for diagnostics
Exploiting security filters
Enforcing settings with No Override
Merging or replacing user settings with loopback processing
Writing effective WMI filters
Enumerating Win32 management classes
Creating WMI Query Language (WQL) queries
Designing regular expressions for improved filtering
Deploying Software Packages with GPOs Constructing a strategic deployment plan
Interpreting package file structure
Obtaining and creating package files
Modifying software deployment options
Assigning and publishing software
Upgrading managed applications
Customising installations with transform files
Ensuring the reliability of GPO deployed software
Providing self-healing applications with the Windows Installer Service (WIS)
Leveraging DFS to enhance performance and reliability