Active Directory & Group Policy Lab

In this lecture you are going to learn about Organizational Units and Containers. You'll learn how to use them and what their purpose is.

In this lecture you are going to learn how to create a user account with Active Directory Users and Computers.

In this lecture I am going to show you how to find and locate Active Directory objects within Active Directory Users and Computers

In this lecture you are going to learn about Active Directory security and distribution groups. We will create an example group, add and remove members and memberships before we delete it.

In this lecture you are going to learn how to disable and delete user accounts within Active Directory Users and Computers!

This quiz will test your knowledge on Active Directory Users and Computers! Every question in this quiz covers a very important piece of Active Directory so make sure you can answer all of them correctly!

It's a great idea to take notes as that will greatly help you retain the information in this course!

In this lecture you are going to learn what Group Policy is and how it is used.

In this lecture you are going to learn all about creating and managing GPOs (Group Policy Objects)

In this lecture I am going to show you how to edit GPOs (Group Policy Objects)

In this lecture you are going to learn how to use RSOP.msc (Resultan Set of Policy) to troubleshoot Group Policy.

In this lecture we are going to look at the "gpresult /r" command and how it can help us troubleshoot Group Policy issues.

In this lecture you are going to learn how to utilize non-inheriting Organizational Units for testing and troubleshooting purposes.

In this lecture you are going to learn how to configure a desktop wallpaper for your domain computers.

In this lecture you are going to learn how you can setup a logon banner. This banner will be display when a user enters the ctrl+alt+dec sequence to log in to a domain workstation or server.

In this lecture you are going to learn how to deploy software (MSI's) to your domain computers / users with Group Policy via a GPO.

In this lecture I am going to show you how to setup roaming profiles on a per-user basis. We are going to create a file share for use with roaming profiles, configure the user account(s) in Active Directory, then we will test our setup.

In this lecture you are going to learn how to create a file share, publish the share to Active Directory and automatically map it for your domain users based on a group membership.

In this lecture you are going to learn how to configure domain password and account lockout policies with Group Policy.

In this lecture you are going to learn how to create a fine grained password policy or password settings object (PSO) for your Active Directory domain.

This allows you as an administrator to define password policies on a per user basis instead of a per computer basis like a Group Policy Object would require. Here is the Powershell command that we will use to verify the PSO is working properly:

Get-ADUser -filter {GivenName -like Paul} –Properties "givenName""msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed" | Select-Object -Property "Displayname",@{Name="ExpiryDate";Expression={[datetime]::FromFileTime($_."msDS-UserPasswordExpiryTimeComputed")}}

In this lecture you are going to learn how you can configure Windows Firewall settings for your domain computers with a Group Policy Object (GPO)

Certain Windows vulnerabilities cannot be patched by simply installing updates. Sometimes you will need to configure specific Registry settings on all of your workstations. Watch this lecture to learn how!

In this lecture I am going to show you how you can get around the following Powershell error when attempting to execute scripts:

File C:\Test.ps1 cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system. For more information, see about_Execution_Policies..

In this lecture I am going to give you a crash-course on using Windows Powershell with Active Directory. I am going to introduce you to the commands that we will be using in the later lectures so you will have an easier time understanding what is going on when we create more advanced scripts.

In this lecture you are going to learn how you can use Windows Powershell to list users in Active Directory. We will also be covering how to export those lists as CSV files so you can edit them in excel or your preferred spreadsheet editor. You are going to learn how to list users in a certain OU, disabled / expires users, all domain users, users that are members of a certain group, and much more!

In this lecture you are going to learn how you can easily write Powershell scripts to create Active Directory users!

In this lecture I am going to show you how you can easily write a Powershell script to create Active Directory users from a CSV (comma separated file). This can make creating hundreds or even thousands of AD users very simple, so don't skip out on this lecture!

In this lecture we are going to make a script that will cleanup our Active Directory disabled users by automatically moving any disabled users into the "Disabled Users" organizational unit, and it will automatically disable any enabled user accounts that are in the "Disabled Users" OU.

In this lecture we are going to update our script use the first initial of the first name and to allow the creation of users who have the same first initial and last name. Example would be: Patrick Hill = phill, Paul Hill = phill1.

In this lecture I am going to explain how you can get your certificate of completion.