Windows Domain Group Policy

Group Policy

• Group Policy is a great way to configure commonly deployed settings to both Users and Computers, below we show some commonly used Group Policy settings and how to apply them to only certain users/groups or computers
• Open up Group Policy Management: gpmc.msc

• As shown above, all Group Policy Objects are stores in the Group Policy Objects folder where the red arrow is pointing, from there they are linked into individual Organizational Units(OU's) where the black arrows are pointing to
• You can have OU's nested inside of other OU's and apply a GPO only to the child OU by dropping it into the nested OU's folder as shown below in Common Group Policies

Common Group Policies

• In many domain environments a lot of computers will have the same settings that have to be applied across all of them, a good example of this is networking and firewall rules
• While we can go individually to each computer and manually type in multiple search suffixes or a firewall rule to allow Incoming Echo requests(ping) it would take forever on multiple computers, in this example we show you how to apply a Group Policy Object to a set of computers