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Designing and Managing a Group Policy Deployment

This course is designed to build on the knowledge you gained in the Group Policy fundamentals course by providing practical direction on how you can design, manage, and secure a good Group Policy deployment.

Intermediate
3h 1m
(12)

Created by Darren Mar-Elia

Last Updated Jun 22, 2020

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Designing and Managing a Group Policy Deployment

This course is designed to build on the knowledge you gained in the Group Policy fundamentals course by providing practical direction on how you can design, manage, and secure a good Group Policy deployment.

Intermediate
3h 1m
(12)

Created by Darren Mar-Elia

Last Updated Jun 22, 2020

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What you'll learn

Once you know the basics of Group Policy, the next step is learning how to deploy, manage, and secure it correctly. In this course, Designing and Managing a Group Policy Deployment, you will gain the ability to develop an approach and the tools for successful deployment, delegation, and troubleshooting of Group Policy in your environment. First, you will learn how to deploy GPOs most efficiently and with a focus on reducing complexity. Next, you will discover how to delegate and harden your GPOs to ensure they are safely and securely deployed. Finally, you will explore how to troubleshoot common GPO issues and learn the step-by-step approaches to solving GPO problems. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge needed to be confident in having a secure and manageable Group Policy deployment in your own environments.

Designing and Managing a Group Policy Deployment
Intermediate
3h 1m
(12)
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Darren Mar-Elia - Pluralsight course - Designing and Managing a Group Policy Deployment
Darren Mar-Elia
5 courses 4.7 author rating 278 ratings

Darren Mar-Elia is CTO and Founder of SDM Software and GPOGUY.COM. Darren has 30 years of IT and Software experience in the Microsoft technology area, including IT architecture roles at Fortune 500 companies and CTO of Windows products at Quest Software. He’s been a Microsoft Group Policy MVP for 11 years.

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