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Active Directory: Managing user settings with Group Policy
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Active Directory: Managing user settings with Group Policy

Administrative Group Policy (GPOs) templates ; Folder Redirection, software installation, scripts; Item-level targeting
Created byVitalii Shumylo
Last updated 2/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Implement administrative Group Policy (GPOs) templates
  • Configure Folder Redirection, software installation, and scripts
  • Configure Group Policy preferences
  • Item-level targeting with Group Policy (GPOs)

Course content

3 sections • 21 lectures • 1h 36m total length

  • Course Overview1:26
  • Section Overview3:11
  • What are administrative templates?3:26
  • What are .adm and .admx files?5:01

    Understand how adm and admx files define group policy templates, with admx language neutral and adml language-specific, stored in the policy definitions folder and central store.

  • Overview of the central store3:59
  • Demonstration: Configuring settings with administrative templates12:33

    Explore configuring administrative templates, filtering policies, and adding commands in the group policy management editor, and learn to copy, backup, and import GPOs.

  • Importing security templates5:56

    Explore how to import security templates into group policy to configure, distribute, and backup windows security settings using tools like secedit command-line tool, security templates snap-in, and security compliance manager.

  • Managing administrative templates3:50

Requirements

  • Familiarity with general Windows and Microsoft server administration and technologies

Description

This course is aimed to IT Pros and is supposed to give the viewer the information they need to know to get started with Active Directory (AD DS) and its key concepts. The goal is to provide coverage of AD DS components of advanced AD DS deployments, how to deploy a distributed AD DS environment and· Configure and Manage ADDS User Settings with Group Policy.

The course is targeted to help learning Active Directory and do your job more efficiently. 

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Implement administrative Group Policy (GPOs) templates

  • Configure Folder Redirection, software installation, and scripts

  • Configure Group Policy preferences

  • Item-level targeting with Group Policy (GPOs)

  • And more...

Who this course is for:

  • Active Directory Administrators
  • Windows Server Administrators
  • IT Specialists
  • Security Specialits

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