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Best Practices for Group Policy Deployment and Management

This course will take you through the basics of using Group Policy into best practices for deploying and managing it in your production environments. You'll learn how to design a Group Policy environment that is secure, manageable, and reliable.

Darren Mar-Elia - Pluralsight course - Best Practices for Group Policy Deployment and Management
by Darren Mar-Elia

What you'll learn

Group Policy is complex, and it's not always easy to know the best way to deploy and manage it. In this course, Best Practices for Group Policy Deployment and Management, you’ll learn the best ways to deploy Group Policy in order to manage a reliable, functional Group Policy infrastructure. First, you'll discover how to design an AD with Group Policy in mind. Next, you’ll explore how to target, delegate, and secure Group Policy. Finally, you’ll delve into the skills needed to manage Group Policy ongoing such as auditing and change control. When you’re finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of Group Policy deployment and management needed to deliver an effective configuration management solution in your organization.

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Darren Mar-Elia - Pluralsight course - Best Practices for Group Policy Deployment and Management
Darren Mar-Elia

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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