Active Directory and Group Policy Overview: Back to the Basics of Security Practices

This video gives you an overview of Active Directory and Group Policies. The video is meant as an intro to Active Directory and Group Policies so that it is easier to follow along in the other videos. Other videos in this series leverage Group Policy settings to fix security issues so this is an important skill to understand, and also understand the Active Directory structure.

0:00 - Intro
0:40 - What is Active Directory?
3:29 - System Administrator Tools used
4:49 - Who can administrate
6:26 - Organizational Units
7:15 - Groups
9:59 - Demo Active Directory Overview
16:38 - Group Policies - What is it?
19:35 - Group Policies - Central Store
20:42 - Group Policies - Filtering
21:47 - Group Policies - Loopback Processing
22:34 - Demo Group Policies Overview
30:24 - Outro

[tomnewman]

Fantastic video. Great introduction to Active Directory and structured in a really easy to understand way.