Restrict Windows Server Access to a Specific Active Directory Group

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Restrict Windows Server Access to a Specific Active Directory Group

You are working on securing your Windows Servers, and as part of the effort, you want to make sure that only the correct people can log into them. You want to make sure that the employees on the sales team cannot access the servers via remote desktop. In order to do this, in this hands-on lab, you are going to create a Group Policy to deny access to any user in the **Sales** group if they try to log in.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 24, 2025

Duration

1h 0m

Challenge

Configure the Active Directory Domain Services Environment
- Confirm the private IP address of the domain controller VM is set to Static
- Install Active Directory Domain Services
  
  Download the installadds PowerShell script from the GitHub repository
Challenge

Restrict Access to Domain Controller Using Group Policy Object
- Configure the following users and groups:
  
  Create the Domain Admin user
  
  Create a Sales group
  
  Create an awesomesales user and add it to the Sales group
  
  Download the configureusersandgroup PowerShell script from the GitHub repository
- Create a Group Policy Object
- Deny remote access to the Sales group using the Deny log on through Remote Desktop Services group setting
Challenge

Confirm Sales User Cannot Remotely Connect to Domain Controller
- Log in to the VM
- Attempt to remote into the domain controller virtual machine using the Sales user account
- Confirm that the settings have been applied by the GPO

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