Group Policy 5 Nuggets Every Admin MUST Know!

In this episode I take you through 5 core features of Microsoft Windows Server Group Policy that are critical skills for any administrator. From the basics, we look at creating and managing GPOs, Deploying software and managing security. Believe me if you’re looking for a career in IT then these are skills that every Admin must have.

Timecodes

00:00 Introductions
02:25 1 The Basics
03:50 2 Understanding Enforcement & Blocking Inheritance
07:20 3 Deploying Software via Group Policy
15:23 4 Important Security Settings
21:40 5 Desktop & Control Panel Settings
25:15 Conclusions

[ebenezermamfe]

Very useful. Thanks for sharing this tutorial.

[aroonheera]

Andy, you're one in a million love the attention to detail and knowledge that you so kindly share :)

[sharramik]

a nice overview/reminder of GPO's, it is worth reiterating that you should test GPO changes on a test OU first, and that if you change the default domain policy (as you mentioned several times) it will apply to everything including to your severs! so take time, test, and be cautious.

[silvanabongiorno]

Thanks Andy, very useful to watch over and over again!

[buldozzer]

Awesome Video! It's been years since I used the GPO Software installer. I tend to deploy PS-Scripts that install the Software and set the settings as intended. I hate MST-Files with a passion. 😁

[wg]

Good stuff, note, Gpupdate / force applies to the current machine not deploying GPO changes to all AD objects.

[adrianclarke]

As always another excellent video, Andy. Thank you.

[oli.]

Very useful for a noob like me. Thanks!!!

[kristofferjohansson]

Word of caution regarding enforcement, if you need it there’s something wrong with your structure or management of people. If you for instance use PAW OU’s you really need to disable inheritance.
And never alter default policy, that is bad practice that MS discourage.

[DeltaXRW]

Hello, a query, im a mini admin of a very large organization, while joining my domain mss.pok, sometimes on user machines (win 10), it returns error "Network Path Not Found", any idea how do i fix this, even the admin credentials are correct and the device is connected properly to network, it doesnt join the domain.
🎉Love you videos.

[lifeslooker]

why does it take several goes sometimes to apply gpupdate?

[BrandonM-xq]

How would one make a GPO for restarting computers weekly? With a warning message to users to either accept or delay the restart. Thanks in advanced!