This week's lesson focused on Group Policy. This is a useful and versatile tools that works in Windows Server 2008R2 and Server 2012 to help configure workstations.
You can do many things with Group Policy; some common ones include setting and managing passwords, assigning user rights and permissions within a domain as well as working with restricting access to objects that you might not want the user to access.
Another feature that is very useful is the way that Group Policy works with Windows Firewall. Although you can use the Advanced Firewall by itself, you can also call it from a Group Policy object.
Another useful feature is how Group Policy lets an network administrator apply application restrictions in various ways. You can even set a hash restriction, which allows an application to be blocked even if it is renamed.
One problem is that the Group Policy Editor running on the server software listed above only works with Windows 7 and Windows 8 clients; machines running Vista or Windows XP are not supported. There is a workaround in that you can download Client Side Extensions from Microsoft to use Group Policies with older clients.
A extremely valuable lesson that will help the modern network administator out immensely!
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