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A Course on Planning A Group Policy Management
And Implementation Strategy
Prepared for: *Stars*
New Horizons Certified Professional Course
FILTERING GROUP POLICY’S SCOPE
• By default, settings flow from site to domain to OU.
• Three ways to control Group Policy settings inheritance– Block Policy Inheritance:– Security filtering– WMI filters
SECURITY FILTERING
WMI FILTERS
• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
• Used for queries and filters concerning– Hardware– Software– Operating system type
• Can be linked to multiple GPOs
WMI FILTER EXAMPLES
Table 10-1 WMI Filter Examples
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Select * from Win32_OperatingSystemwhere Caption = "Microsoft WindowsXP Professional"
All computers that havemore than 10 MB ofavailable drive space
on a C: NTFS partition
Select * from Win32_LogicalDiskWHERE Name= "C:" AND DriveType = 3AND FreeSpace > 10485760 ANDFileSystem = "NTFS"
All computers with amodem installed
Select * from Win32_POTSModemWhere Name = " MyModem"
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CREATING WMI FILTERS
GROUP POLICY MANAGEMENT CONSOLE (GPMC)
• Free add-on tool that can be used to manage Group Policy. Installs on:– Windows XP with Service Pack 1– Any edition of Windows Server 2003
• Can be used for:– Importing and copying GPO settings– Backing up and restoring of GPOs– Executing the Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) snap-in– Generating HTML reports
INSTALLING GPMC
• GPMC is not on the Windows Server 2003 CD-ROM.
• Can be downloaded for free from the Microsoft
Web site.• In this course, gpmc.msi is on your
supplemental CD-ROM.– Double-click the gpmc.msi file and run through the
wizard.– Distribute through Group Policy.
GPMC CHANGES ACTIVE DIRECTORY USERS AND COMPUTERS
CREATING WMI FILTERS IN GPMC
LINKING WMI FILTERS
NAVIGATING WITH GROUP POLICY MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION DISPLAYED IN THE GPMC INTERFACE
DETERMINING & TROUBLESHOOTING EFFECTIVE POLICY SETTINGS
• Resultant Set Of Policy (RSoP) Wizard
• Group Policy Results
• Group Policy Modeling
• Gpresult.exe command line tool
RSOP LOGGING MODE
RSOP PLANNING MODE
GROUP POLICY MODELING IN GPMC
GROUP POLICY RESULTS
Gpresult.exe
DELEGATING GROUP POLICY ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL
• Creation of GPOs
• Permissions on GPOs
• Linking of GPOs
• Use of Group Policy Modeling and Group Policy Results
• Creation of WMI filters
• WMI permissions
DELEGATING GPO CREATION
DELEGATING PERMISSIONS TO AN INDIVIDUAL GPO
GPMC Individual GPO Permissions
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Read Allows Read Access on the GPO.
Edit settings Includes Read, Write, Create Child Objects, andDelete Child Objects.
Edit, delete, andmodify security
Includes Read, Write, Create Child Objects, DeleteChild Objects, Delete, Modify Permissions, and Modify
Owner. Implies Full Control without the Apply GroupPolicy permission being set.
Read (fromSecurity Filtering)
An automatic setting that appears when a user hasRead and Apply Group Policy permissions to the GPO.
Custom These permissions include those set individuallyusing the ACL editor for the GPO. The ACL editor isinvoked by using the Advanced button and shows the
Security tab contents for the GPO.
DELEGATING LINKING, MODELING, AND RESULTS
DELEGATING WMI FILTERING
PLANNING GROUP POLICY INTEGRATION
• Create policies at the highest level possible.
• Limit the number of GPOs created.
• Create specialized GPOs for policies.
• Disable unnecessary portions (user or computer).
• Only apply GPOs to sites when settings are required on a site basis.
RECOMMENDATIONS ON GROUP POLICY INHERITANCE
• Limit use of the following:– No Override– Block Policy Inheritance– Security filtering
PLANNING ADMINISTRATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF GPOS
• Determine which administrators will have policy delegation roles
• Test policy settings
• Document the plan
RESTORING DEFAULT SECURITY SETTINGS
CHAPTER SUMMARY
• Name two methods you can use to filter GPOs.
• How many WMI filters can be applied to each GPO?
• What can you do with GPMC?
• What two modes are available in RSoP?
• List ways in which you can delegate Group Policy control.