Implement Group Policy Inheritance and Filtering

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Implement Group Policy Inheritance and Filtering

In this hands-on lab, you will take on the role of network engineer and learn the steps needed to configure security filtering, create and apply a WMI filter, and report results using `gpresult`.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 23, 2025

Duration

45m

Challenge

Edit the Group Policy
Edit a Group Policy in main-vm:
1. Rename the default to TestGPO
2. Confirm the change in PowerShell
3. Remove authenticated users from security filtering
Challenge

Prepare test-vm and Validate the GPO Settings
Validate that the GPO settings are correct and prepare test-vm by promoting it to a domain controller and connecting it to the corp.sandynetworking01.com domain:
1. Promote test-vm to a domain controller
2. Connect test-vm to corp.sandynetworking01.com
3. Verify that the Test GPO is visible and listed under Filtering: Denied (Security)
Challenge

Add a Computer and Verify

Add test-vm under the security filter for the Test GPO policy. Once that's complete, verify in test-vm that the updates were successful.
Challenge

Add a WMI Filter for Windows 2019 and Earlier

Jump back into main-vm and create a WMI filter for Windows 2019 and earlier. Verify that this update took effect in test-vm.

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