Good day, Cloud Gurus, and welcome back.
In this section,
we're going to explore Group Policy configuration.
Now Group Policy is one of the foundational tools
for Windows Enterprise Environments.
In Group Policy,
along with the rest of Active Directory and DNS,
really formed the foundation of my career for many years.
It's important to understand well
and your company can benefit enormously
from your understanding of Group Policy.
I'll give you an example.
I optimized Group Policy for an organization
taking their log on times down
from 2 minutes to 25 seconds.
Now it might not seem like much until you multiply it
by the 1500 employees that logged on every day.
Saving an excess of 35 hours
of otherwise unproductive time every day
across the entire company.
Now let's take a look at what we're going to cover
in this section.
First up, we'll take a look at how
Group Policy is implemented
including all of the important bits and pieces
that make up Group Policy.
Then we'll take a look at how Group Policy is applied
and how inheritance works.
And then we'll explore Group Policy filtering options
and we'll also take a look at loop back processing.
And then we'll dive into Administrative Templates
and how you can use them to extend the functionality
provided by Group Policy.
And we'll also explore Group Policy Preferences
which are a powerful addition
to the functionality that Group Policy can provide.
And then we'll wrap up this section
with a look at how Group Policy is configured
in Azure Active Directory Domain Services,
and all of the gotchas to be aware of in that environment.
I can't wait to take you through this.
So let's jump in.