Installing and Configuring Windows Networks (Windows Servers and Clients)

Maintaining highly reliable and secure windows environments in a cost- effective manner can be a challenge.  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.

Harnessing the Power of Group Policies

• Introducing group policy objects (GPOs)
• Controlling computer configurations
• Managing user environments

The Building Blocks of Group Policies

• Leveraging administrative templates
• Storing and containerizing GPOs
• Refreshing user and computer configurations

Controlling the deployment of GPOs

• Exploiting Scopes of management (SOM)
• Limiting GPO application to specific entities
• Implementing power shell

Deploying software packages with GPOs

• Constructing a strategic deployment plan
• Modifying software deployment option
• Ensuring the reliability of GPO-deployed software

Centralizing security management

• Exposing security setting
• Centrally managing security mechanisms
• Leveraging the security configuration wizard

Tuning and Troubleshooting GPOs

• Reviewing advanced logs for troubleshooting
• Troubleshooting failures and unexpected results
• Performing backup and recovery
• Extending GPO administration
• Automating GPO management
• Leveraging advanced tools

FOR WHOM:IT Managers and Staff, Systems Administrators/Engineers, Security Professionals, Network Administrators, and others who perform related functions.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.