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Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (70-290) Tutorials
Managing Group Policy / Creating and Linking a GPO
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Applying a GPO is really a three step process. First we create the GPO, then we configure the GPO and last we link the GPO, that applies the GPO to any of the computers or users in the container where we link the GPO. So we can apply GPOs to multiple containers and likewise we can apply multiple GPOs to a single container. Let us take a look at the tool that we use for windows Server 2003 to apply GPOs. So we are going to go back into active directory users and computers. We are going to right click on the management OU and click on properties and then we are going to click on group policy. Now we are going to go into the group policy management console. In windows 2000 we had a group policy tool but it was very limited in scope because you really couldn't tell very well what group policy was linked to what OU. You had to look at each OU to determine where group policies were linked or whether group policies were linked yet. So I highly recommend that you download from Microsoft Server 2003 downloads. Download the GPMC, the Group Policy Management Console. That is what will be tested for Server 2003 tests and that is what highly recommended for use because, it is much much better as far as a tool is concerned for managing group policy. So we are going to click on open and we are going to open up the group policy management console and as you can see we can see all our OUs. We see a human resource OU, management OU, sales OUs and we can tell that in the management OU right now, the manager's software group policy is linked to it, and human resources doesn't have any group policies linked to it. The sales OU does not have any group policies linked to it. But even better than that what we can do is we can expand the group policy objects and we can see all the group policy objects that we have to work with and as we said applying a GPO is three steps. First of all creating a GPO, second configuring the GPO and third linking the GPO to the correct container. Well with this tool combined with the group policy object that which we will talk about little bit later, on we can do all three steps. So for example we want to make a new group policy object we can right click on group policy objects and click on new and by default it is named new group policy object. But let us just call this our new software policy, so we would type in new software policy for the name of this object and then press enter which is just like clicking on OK. So now we have our new software policy. Well where is our new software policy applied? Well it is not applied anywhere right now. It is not applied to any container. So what we want to do is apply it to some containers. So let us take our new software policy and let us save it, let us say we want to apply it to management OU. We can click on it and hold and drag up to the management OU and then let go. And the system says "ah well, did you want to link that GPO to the organizational unit you have selected"? And I say "Yeah that's what we wanted to do". We click on Ok. Now we can see that our new software policy is in fact applied to the management OU. Not only that but we could go to the management OU in the same tool and we can see that now not only the manager's software policy is applied, but also the new software policy is applied. So as you can see the group policy management console allows us to very easily see what policies are applied. We will get into that. What we are going to do with these policies given the configuration a little bit later on. Right now we are just talking about the application of the group policy the fact that we were able to take that set of rules, and apply it to a particular container without any filtering this application of the group policy would be complete. In other words without filtering the policy would apply to any computers or users that are in the container depending on how I set the settings of the policy. But it is possible to have the policy apply to some users but not to other users and we do that with filtering with security groups. So in our next section we take a look at how we would filter group policies from applying to some groups- that is next.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (70-290) |
| Author: | Bill Ferguson/Certified Instructor |
| SKU: | 33497 |
| ISBN: | 1932072918 |
| Release Date: | 2004-06-03 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 107 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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