50255 Managing, Maintaining, and Securing Your Networks Through
Group Policy
About this Course
Discover how to consolidate the administration of an enterprise
IT infrastructure with Group Policy. In this course, you will learn
to control and manage computer systems and domain users running
Windows Server 2003, Server 2008, XP, and Vista. You will learn to
create Group Policies, implement administrative and security
templates, and determine best practices when deploying software
packages. Walk away with the experience and tools needed to
optimize your enterprise systems and networks.
Audience Profile
This course is intended for Enterprise network staff responsible
for help desk support, system administration, and network
design.
At Course Completion
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Design and deploy security policies for all your Windows
2003/2008 servers, workstations, member servers, XP, and Vista
clients
- Delegate Administrative Control of Group Policies
- Back up and restore Group Policy Objects (GPOs) through Group
Policy Management Console (GPMC)
- Easily roll out selected software updates and operating system
patches from your network environment
- Tips for troubleshooting Group Policy
Course Outline
- Module 1: Introduction to Group Policy
- Module 2: Group Policy Management Tools
- Module 3: Designing a Group Policy Infrastructure
- Module 4: Troubleshooting Group Policy
- Module 5: Deploying Legacy Security Templates
- Module 6: : Implementing Security Using Group Policy
- Module 7: Configuring the Desktop Environment
- Module 8: Assigning and Publishing Software Packages
- Module 9: Software Restrictions Policies
- Module 10: Creating and Deploying Legacy Administrative
Templates
- Module 11: New Group Policy Features for Windows Vista and
Server 2008
- Module 12: Managing Group Policy Preferences