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Windows Server® 2008 Group Policy Management: Hands-On

 
Course: 963   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Centrally manage workstations and servers with Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
  • Lock down user desktops and control computer configurations
  • Leverage techniques to target GPOs to specific clients
  • Create highly reliable and robust software deployment strategies
  • Enhance security with improved GPO features
  • Troubleshoot failures and optimize GPO performance

Course Benefits

Maintaining highly reliable and secure Windows environments in a cost-effective manner is a challenge for many organizations. Group Policies provide the ability to centrally manage your workstation and server configurations while streamlining administrative tasks and reducing IT costs. This course provides the knowledge and skills you need to create and manage effective Group Policies.

Who Should Attend

IT professionals who want to manage and administer Group Policies in a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory environment. A working knowledge of Windows Server 2003 AD or Course 960, "Windows Server 2008 Comprehensive Introduction," is assumed.

Hands-On Training

Extensive hands-on exercises provide practical experience managing a Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 environment through Group Policies. Exercises include:
  • Establishing a central store and utilizing starter GPOs
  • Applying computer and user configuration settings
  • Generating reports for diagnostic purposes
  • Writing WQL queries
  • Implementing robust software delivery mechanisms
  • Configuring core security settings
  • Converting role-based XML data into policy settings
  • Identifying and resolving failures
  • Utilizing preferences to manipulate objects
  • Deploying printers through GPOs

Related Courses

 
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Training Dates

Live online classroom training.Participate in person or in live, online events (highlighted) via Learning Tree AnyWareTM.
Mar 6 - 9Ottawa 
Apr 24 - 27Reston, VA
May 15 - 18Rockville, MD
May 29 - Jun 1New York 
Jun 26 - 29Toronto 
Jul 17 - 20Reston, VA
Sep 4 - 7Ottawa 
Sep 4 - 7Rockville, MD
Sep 25 - 28New York 
Oct 23 - 26Toronto 
Oct 30 - Nov 2Reston, VA

For AnyWare enrollments, please register at least 10 days prior to the start of the course.


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Windows Server® 2008 Group Policy Management: Hands-On

 
Course: 963   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 963 Content
 

Harnessing the Power of Group Policies

Introducing Group Policy Objects (GPOs)

  • Advantages of centralized administration
  • Investigating new features and functionality
  • Contrasting user and computer-based settings

Controlling computer configurations

  • Assigning software packages
  • Enforcing workstation security
  • Standardizing computer settings

Managing user environments

  • Deploying software packages
  • Customizing user configurations
  • Locking down user desktops with administrative templates

The Building Blocks of Group Policies

Leveraging administrative templates

  • Analyzing ADMX/ADML file structure
  • Implementing pre-designed templates and starter GPOs
  • Adding custom templates to extend functionality

Storing and containerizing GPOs

  • Leveraging the central store
  • Maintaining availability through replication

Refreshing user and computer configurations

  • Regulating refresh intervals
  • Working with policy object versions
  • Invoking a policy refresh manually

Controlling the Deployment of GPOs

Exploiting Scopes of Management (SOM)

  • Local
  • Sites
  • Domains
  • Organizational Units
  • Combining settings through inheritance
  • Resolving conflicts between GPO settings
  • Generating a Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP) report

Limiting GPO application to specific entities

  • Disabling GPOs for diagnostics
  • Exploiting security filters
  • Enforcing settings with No Override
  • Merging or replacing user settings with loopback processing

Writing effective WMI filters

  • Enumerating Win32 management classes
  • Creating WMI Query Language (WQL) queries
  • Designing regular expressions for improved filtering

Deploying Software Packages with GPOs

Constructing a strategic deployment plan

  • Interpreting package file structure
  • Obtaining and creating package files

Modifying software deployment options

  • Assigning and publishing software
  • Upgrading managed applications
  • Customizing installations with transform files

Ensuring the reliability of GPO-deployed software

  • Providing self-healing applications with the Windows Installer Service (WIS)
  • Leveraging DFS to enhance performance and reliability

Centralizing Security Management

Exposing security settings

  • Bitlocker
  • Network Access Protection
  • Security Center
  • Controlling group membership with Restricted Groups

Centrally managing security mechanisms

  • Securing network communications
  • Reducing operating system vulnerabilities

Leveraging the Security Configuration Wizard

  • Transforming a role-based analysis into a GPO
  • Importing settings into the Active Directory

Tuning and Troubleshooting GPOs

Optimizing GPO performance

  • Expediting Group Policy application
  • Detecting and handling slow links

Troubleshooting failures and unexpected results

  • Isolating failures with Event Logs
  • Predicting results through GPO modeling

Performing backup and recovery

  • Contingency planning through backups
  • Recovering Group Policy Objects after failures

Extending GPO Administration

Automating GPO management

  • Driving Management Console objects with PowerShell
  • Exploiting ADSI with scripting technologies

Leveraging advanced tools

  • Augmenting the management toolset
  • Translating legacy ADM files
 
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Windows Server® 2008 Group Policy Management: Hands-On

 
Course: 963   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
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