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Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787289352

Length 742 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Active Directory Domain Services

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Dishan Francis

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Active Directory Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Active Directory Domain Services 2016

3. Designing Active Directory Infrastructure

4. Active Directory Domain Name System

5. Placing Operations Master Roles

6. Migrating to Active Directory 2016

7. Managing Active Directory Objects

8. Managing Users, Groups, and Devices

9. Designing the OU Structure

10. Managing Group Policies

11. Active Directory Services

12. Active Directory Certificate Services

13. Active Directory Federation Services

14. Active Directory Rights Management Services

15. Active Directory Security Best Practices

16. Advanced AD Management with PowerShell

AD management with PowerShell - preparation

17. Azure Active Directory Hybrid Setup

18. Active Directory Audit and Monitoring

19. Active Directory Troubleshooting

Group Policy inheritance

Any Group Policy applied in the upper level of the structure is inherited by a lower level. The order of the inherited policies is based on the LSDOU model that I have explained in a previous section. Group Policy inheritance for each OU can be reviewed using Group Policy Management MMC.

Once you click on the OU, click on the tab called Group Policy Inheritance:

The Group Policy inheritance details can also be viewed using the Get-GPInheritance cmdlet. So, the same information listed in the preceding figure can be viewed using the following command:

Get-GPInheritance -Target "OU=Users,OU=Europe,DC=rebeladmin,DC=com"

In this example, I have one site-linked Group Policy called Site 1. There are two domain-linked group policies called Root 1 and Root 2. I also have an OU-linked Group Policy called Test Users:

In the list, the first precedence goes to the Test Users Group Policy that is closest to the OU. It is the OU-linked Group Policy. Then, precedence order 2 goes to...