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Play by Play: Group Policy Best Practices with Darren Mar-Elia

Learn how to design a scalable and maintainable Group Policy infrastructure from expert Darren Mar-Elia.

Gary Eimerman - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Group Policy Best Practices with Darren Mar-Elia
by Gary Eimerman
Darren Mar-Elia - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Group Policy Best Practices with Darren Mar-Elia
by Darren Mar-Elia

What you'll learn

In this course, Darren Mar-Elia (GPOGUY) discusses the common pitfalls and issues involved in using Group Policy, how to avoid them with good design principles, and how to troubleshoot the all-too-common bloated GP infrastructure. We give Darren a scenario environment overloaded with policies, including several conflicting policies, and watch as he walks through inventory, normalizing, and deployment of revised policies. Play by Play is a series in which we sit down with top industry experts and discuss technologies, problems and solutions in real time, unscripted and unrehearsed. Have you ever wished you could watch one of your tech heroes work through a problem in real time, using their own tools and tricks? This is the series for you.

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About the authors

Gary Eimerman - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Group Policy Best Practices with Darren Mar-Elia
Gary Eimerman

Gary Eimerman is VP of IT Pro Content at Pluralsight. He brought his expertise over from TrainSignal, where he spent eight years helping to grow the company into the leader in online IT training.

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Darren Mar-Elia - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: Group Policy Best Practices with Darren Mar-Elia
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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