List of Sidebars

Chapter 1: Group Policy Essentials

Why Abandon Old School?
The Original GPMC versus the GPMC with SP1
Installing the Prerequisites and GPMC via Group Policy Software Distribution
Upgrading from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000, Windows 2003, or Windows 2003) SP1: Cleaning Up Old GPOs
Creating a One-Stop Shop MMC
Understanding GPMC's Link Warning
Create and Link a GPO Here versus Link an Existing GPO
Easily Manage New Users and Computers
Adding a User to the Server Operators Group
Group Policy Strategy: Should I Create More or Fewer GPOs?
A Note about the Three Possible Settings: Not Configured, Enabled, and Disabled

Chapter 2: Managing Group Policy with the GPMC

Locating Specific Policy Settings
Why Totally Disable a Group Policy Object?
On Group Policy Object Links and Group Policy Objects Themselves
How Is a Computer an Authenticated User?
Positive or Negative?
Understanding Windows XP / SP2's Firewall Settings (and Dealing with Group Policy Results)
What to Expect from the Group Policy Modeling Wizard
Warning: A deleted GPO's Links arenot restored!

Chapter 3: Group Policy Processing Behavior

How Does the Group Policy Engine Know What's New or Changed?
Processing and Running Scripts Over Slow Links
Setting All Who Log on to a Specific Computer to Use a Specific Printer
Yet Another Pratical Use for Group Policy LoopbackReplace Mode
The Big Question: Why Loopback Across Cross-Forest Trusts?

Chapter 4: Troubleshooting Group Policy

GPC Attributes
Using LDP to see the Guts of a GPC
Changing the Default Location for the Initial Write of Group Policy Objects
Why Don't All CSEs Have DLLs?
Three Different GPResults Three Different Outputs!

Chapter 5: Windows ADM Templates

ADM File Fine Print for Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP1
GPMC Reporting Options
Another Use for the Always Use Local ADM files For The Group Policy Object Editor Policy Setting

Chapter 6: Implementing Security with Group Policy

Mea Culpa
Software Restriction Policies and Digital Signatures
Special Microsoft Templates

Chapter 8: Profiles: Local, Roaming, and Mandatory

Changing the Profiles Folder
Modifying Multiple User's Profile Paths
The Impact of Users Latching On, to My Documents
Changing the Profile Type from Roaming to Local

Chapter 9: Intellimirror, Part 1: Redirected Folders, Offline Files, Synchronization Manager, and Disk Quotas

Share Permissions: Full Control versus Change
How to Grant Administrators Access to My Documents (or Other Redirected Folders)
Another Option: "Optimized for Performance" (or "Automatic Caching for Programs" for Windows 2000)
Roaming Profile Shares and Offline Cache Settings
Offline Files and Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2003 Server
Synchronization Manager State Transitions
Using Cachemov.exe to Move the Client Side Cache
Synchronization Manager Limitations
Understanding File Ownership

Chapter 10: IntelliMirror, Part 2: Software Deployment via Group Policy

Normal Shares versus Dfs
Creating Your Own .msi Package
Before You Ramp Up Let's Talk about Licensing
What's with the Up and Down Buttons in the Modification tap?
One for the Road Leave Windows Installer and Group Policy Software Installation Data

Chapter 11: Beyond IntelliMirror: Shadow Copies and Remote Installation Services

What's New in Windows 2003 RIS
RIS versus PXE
Mere Mortals Can Add Only 10 Workstations

Appendix A: Group Policy Tools

A Word about Drag and Drop
Wholesale Backup and Restore of Your Test Lab (or an Easy Way to Migrate to Production)


Group Policy, Profiles, and IntelliMirror for Windows 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000
Group Policy, Profiles, and IntelliMirror for Windows2003, WindowsXP, and Windows 2000 (Mark Minasi Windows Administrator Library)
ISBN: 0782144470
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 110

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