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Configure Group Policy Preferences

In this hands-on lab, you will learn the steps needed to create and edit a Group Policy in a Windows Server.

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Level
Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 45m
Published
Clock icon Jan 17, 2022

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Create a New Policy Object

    In this first objective, you will log onto the main-vm and create a new Group Policy Object (GPO) named Learning.

  2. Challenge

    Edit a Group Policy Object — Editing Folders

    For the second objective, you should create a new computer preference that will delete the C:\Temp folder and all files in it if the computer name is main-vm, the folder exists, and the C: drive free disk space is less than 1 GB.

  3. Challenge

    Edit a Group Policy Object — Editing Files

    In the final objective, you should:

    1. Open Notepad and create a file named file.txt and save it to the desktop. Then, create a folder named Learning and save it to the desktop.
    2. Create a computer preference to create a file named itworked.txt in the Learning folder if a file.txt exists on the desktop.
    3. Verify the operation.
    4. Edit the GPO to instead delete the itworked.txt file if it exists in the Learning folder.
    5. Verify the operation.

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