group policy management makes your life easier

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Peter Tsai Spiceworks IT Content Dude Group Policy Management

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How does Group Policy work with Active Directory? Group Policy provides granular control over thousands of different settings and allows you to highly customize permissions per user, group of users, computer, or group of computers within a domain. It also makes your life much easier by allowing you to automate tasks. – because no one wants to manually update a single setting 500 times.

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Peter TsaiSpiceworks IT Content Dude

Group Policy Management

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With Special Guest:

Jimmy TassinIT Manager – St. Louis, MO12 years in IT

“Currently managing a project to transition the company from a

2003 Active Directory/Exchange environment to a

2012 environment.”

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What is Group Policy?

Group Policy provides the centralized management and configuration of OSes, apps, and user settings in an Active Directory environment.

USED GROUP POLICY

SAVED A BUNCH OF TIME

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Why should I care about Group Policy?

Simple… Group policy makes life for IT pros easier!

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What are Group Policy objects?

GPOs = policy documents that apply their settings to the computers and users within their control

GPO = Giant Pacific OctopusGroup Policy Object

Photo Courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

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Managing Users & Computers with GPOs and OUs

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Installing Software via Group Policy Objects

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Group Policy Tips + Best Practices

SAVING YOUR BACON

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Questions?