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Mastering Group Policy on Windows Server
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(3,499 ratings)
17,007 students

Mastering Group Policy on Windows Server

An IT person's guide to managing Active Directory Users and Computers with Group Policy
Created byKevin Brown
Last updated 10/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Create GPOs
  • Troubleshoot GPO processing
  • Design Active Directory structures to facilitate group policy processing
  • Add third party settings into group policy
  • Control user and computer settings, including account policies, security settings, folder redirection, desktop settings, application settings, and many more

Course content

20 sections • 40 lectures • 3h 16m total length

  • Introduction1:35
  • Course Update: Windows Server 20190:38
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  • Playback Speed0:28
  • (Optional) Lab Setup1:17
  • Wishlist0:27
  • Configuration Management Overview1:10

Requirements

  • Basic understanding of Server Operating Systems
  • An understanding of Active Directory Domain Services

Description

Mastering Group Policy on Windows Server applies to Windows Server 2022, 2019, and 2016.  This course is designed to teach Group Policy management to those that need to utilize group policy and other Active Directory tools to manage users and computers within their environments or to anyone that wants to able to understand group policy processing and capabilities at an Active Directory level.

In this course you will gain a deep understanding for different considerations of Active Directory design that can impact how group policies are applied. You will gain insight into the decisions made to design Forest, Domain and Organizational Unit structures to ensure that they allow group policies to be effectively applied. You will also learn to plan for various considerations- for example, some users accounts of computer accounts may need to be exempt from a group policy object, you will learn the options that are available for that type of scenario.

This course will cover the following topics, and more.

· Group Policy processing order with Active Directory

· Altering the processing order with Active Directory

· Software deployment

· Central store design

· Administrative templates

· Security settings

· Firewall management

· Password polices

· User rights assignments

· Preferences

· App locker restrictions

· Folder redirection

· Starter GPO design

· Scripts

· Delegation

· Refresh intervals

· Troubleshooting GPO issues

· Backup/restore/copy/import



Who this course is for:

  • Those that need to increase their knowledge of group policy management
  • Those that are new to Active Directory administration
  • Those that will plan and design organizational unit structures

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