Administering Group Policy

By Author: Mike Jones
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This chapter shows you how to comptia administer Group Policy, which is essential to meeting the needs of changing organizations. A key tool in Group Policy administration is generating Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP), a feature that simplifies policy implementation and troubleshooting. You must be able to use RSoP in Logging mode to determine the resultant effect of policy settings that have been applied to an existing user and computer based on a site, domain, and OU. You can also use RSoP in Planning mode to simulate the resultant effect of policy settings that are applied to a user and a computer. Planning your Group Policy strat-egy is essential to providing the most efficient Group Policy implementation for your organization. Another part of effective Group Policy administration is the ability to redirect folders, which provides users with an access point for storing and finding information and administrators with an access point for managing information. Using the Folder Redirection node in Group Policy, you can redirect the location of Application Data, Desktop, My Documents, ...
... My Pictures, and Start Menu. Finally, you must be able to provide users with access to redirected folders even when they are not connected to the network. You can do this by learning to use the Offline Files feature, which caches files accessed through folder redirec?tion onto the hard drive of the local A+ training course computer.
To complete the lessons in this chapter, you must
Prepare your test environment according to the descriptions given in the "Getting Started" section of "About This Book"
Complete the practices for installing and configuring Active Directory as discussed in Chapter 2, "Installing and Configuring Active Directory"
Learn to use Active Directory administration tools as discussed in Chapter 3,"Administering Active Directory"
Complete the practices for configuring sites and replication as discussed in Chapter 5, "Configuring Sites and Managing Replication"
Complete the practices for implementing an organizational unit (OU) structure as discussed in Chapter 6, "Implementing an OU Structure"
Complete the practices for creating and maintaining user accounts as discussed in Chapter 7, "Administering User Accounts"
Complete the practices for creating and administering group accounts as discussed in Chapter 8, "Administering Groups"
Complete the practices for implementing Group Policy Objects (GPOs) as discussed in Chapter 10, "Implementing Group Policy"
A detailed discussion of WMI is beyond the scope of this training kit. For detailed information about WMI, refer to the MSDN Library at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library. You can find information about WMI by pointing to Setup and free practice tests System Information, Windows Man?agement Instrumentation (WMI), and finally Technical Articles.