To open the group policy management console.
Click on the stop on at the bottom left hand corner of the screen.
Go to Windows administrative tools and then click on group policy management.
You should then see the group policy management console on screen.
The first thing you'll see is forest and in the name of your domain.
Suppose some context on this forest can contain multiple domains underneath it much like a multinational
company with different sort companies reach domain being separate in its own right.
For our example we'll be managing a single company with only one domain.
This can be found under the domain scope folder within the console.
On his calls example dot local one example dot local is expanded.
You should then be able to see the various organizational units that contain Users and Computers within
the domain as well as any group policies that are applied at the Domain level.
Normally any policy applies at the Domain root level applies system wide although there are some exceptions
such as when the policy is still enforced or have block policy inheritance enabled.
Both of these options are explained in more detail later on in the course although there is a default
domain policy already there.
So I guess in my experience it is generally best practice to create a new top level policy and put any
system wide settings in there and leave the default policy other says next on the options we've got
the group policy object folder.
This allows you to quickly find any group policy regardless of where it's applied as they are all listed
here in alphabetical order.
After this we've got W and I fill says this is explained in more detail later on but this is where you
can lock down policies based on hardware.
For example if you want a policy to only apply specific hardware i.e. only laptop computers or those
with over a certain amount of RAM installed Delta GPO is used if you want to create a template for similar
GPO in different departments.
Although a useful feature it's one in my experience isn't generally used in real world environments.
Next we've got sites.
This is where you would apply GPO to a physical site.
If you have multiple offices in your company and you only wanted a policy to apply to a certain physical
location.
After this there's a group policy model and feature.
This allows you to see what policies will be applied to a specific user or computer and can be especially
useful as policy is applied at different levels.
Explain later on can often conflict with each other and there are different rules that determine which
policy actually takes effect.
In this situation.
Finally this group policy results which lets you see policy results for users and computers.
Now that we've gone over the group policy management console let's move onto the next part of the course.
An overview of group policies.