AD policies
How to open the Group Policy Editor in Windows 11 or 10
A Group Policy is an Active Directory feature that facilitates centralized management and configuration of the operating system, programs, and user settings for all computers in the same domain. A Local Group Policy is a subset of Group Policy that ...
Account Lockout Policy
Account Lockout Policy determines what happens when a user enters a wrong password. It ensures that an attacker can’t use a brute force attack or dictionary attack to guess and crack the user’s password. To edit the Account Lockout Policy settings, ...
Account Policies
Even though, AD has implemented strong authentication protocols like Kerberos to protect sensitive information stored in the directory, a malicious user, can still break into the directory by gaining knowledge of the username and password of a user ...
Group Policy Results
It is always a good practice to know what policy settings are being applied to a user or computer, since GPO imposes a lot of restrictions and customizations on the user and computer. So, if something is amiss, a review of the policy settings will ...
Security Filtering and WMI Filtering
Security Filtering is used to apply policy settings to only a particular set of users and computers. By default, all authenticated users will receive the policy settings. To apply the GPO only to a particular set of users and computers, follow these ...
Creating a GPO in Active Directory
GPOs can be created and managed using the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). The configuration settings can be edited using the Group Policy Object Editor (gpedit) console. The following steps illustrate how to create a GPO: Open the GPMC ...
Benefits of Group Policies
Time and Cost Saving All configuration settings are applied automatically during user logon and computer startup. The settings are applied without needing any user intervention which results in fewer requirements for technicians. Centralized location ...
Group Policy
In a nutshell, a Group Policy is a collection of settings, which determine how a unit of users/computers should behave. The Two Types of Group Policies: Administrators can use Group Policies to enforce a set of configuration settings to both the ...
Active Directory Policies
The time and cost spent to organize, control and maintain the IT infrastructure of an organization is very high. It is the IT administrator’s job to ensure that the employees of the organization have the latest softwares, adequate security settings, ...
Fine-Grained Password Policies
In Active Directory, there can be only one Password Policy and Account-Lockout Policy per domain. Situations may arise in which setting different account policies for different types of users will be required. For example, employees in the finance ...
Password Policy
Password Policy ensures that a user password is strong and is changed in a periodic manner so that it becomes highly impossible for an attacker to crack the password. To edit Password Policy settings: Go to Start Menu → Administrative Tools → Group ...
Force Group Policy Updates
Any changes made to a GPO will take somewhere between 90-120 minutes on domain members and 5 minutes on domain controllers to take effect. To apply the group policies immediately without waiting for the update interval, a command line utility called ...
GPO Delegation
Just like other AD objects, security principals can be assigned permissions to access a GPO. The following are the list of permissions that can be assigned: Read Edit Settings Edit Settings, Delete, Modify security The following steps illustrate how ...
GPO Inheritance
A user or a computer in an OU can have multiple GPOs applied to it. For example, Local Group Policy, GPOs linked to the site, GPOs linked to the domain and GPOs linked to the OU. Also, multiple GPOs can be linked to any of these containers. The ...
Group Policy Objects
Group Policy settings are stored in the form of Group Policy Objects (GPOs). GPOs can be created like any other active directory object and is linked to a Site, domain or OU in which the policy settings have to be applied. The GPO stores its ...
Different Group Policy Settings
Group Policy includes policy settings that affect both Users and Computers. The settings under Computer Configuration control how the computer is configured. The settings under User configuration control the user’s log on session. Settings configured ...