Week 5 Notes - ArtTHEbard/SYS255FA19-Notes GitHub Wiki

ADDS & Group Policy

Active Directory

• OU = Organizational Unit
• SID = Security Identifiers
  • Ids given to accounts to identify the user
  • All local admin accounts are defaulted to SID ending in 500
• Schema = How the AD tree is laid out

Group Policy

• Assigned to OUs that contain users or computers
• GPOs apply to before logon, after logon, an startup, etc
• Computer GPOs effect the individual machines
• User GPOs effect the individual users, no matter what machine they sign in to.
• Need Windows Pro or up (home does not join domains)
• Group policy management - edits group GPOS
• gpedit - edit group policy on local machine
• gpresult /r - displays applied group policy
• rsop.msc - displays applied group policy settings graphically.