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Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure Group Policy

by Greg Shields

This course is the sixth in a Learning Path of seven courses that cover Microsoft's 70-411 R2 exam. This course explores how to configure Group Policy processing, configure Group Policy settings, Manage Group Policy Objects, and configure Group Policy Preferences.

What you'll learn

This course updates Pluralsight's 70-411 Learning Path to include content relevant to Windows Server 2012 R2. In this course, you'll learn how to configure processing order and precedence, blocking of inheritance, enforced policies, security and WMI filtering, slow-link processing and Group Policy caching, loopback processing, client-side extension (CSE) behavior. You'll learn how to force Group Policy update; configure property filters for administrative templates; configure settings, including software installation, folder redirection, scripts, and administrative template settings; import custom administrative template files; import security templates; back up, import, copy, and restore GPOs; create and configure Migration Tables; reset default GPOs; delegate Group Policy management; configure GPP settings, including printers, network drive mappings, power options, custom registry settings, Control Panel settings, Internet Explorer settings, file and folder deployment, and shortcut deployment; and configure item-level targeting.

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About the author

Greg Shields is Sr. Director of IT Ops Skills at Pluralsight and formerly Principal Author Evangelist. Reach him on Twitter @ConcentratdGreg.

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