Question

Case Project 6-2 Explaining GPOs 

The owner of CSM Tech Publishing has told you he needs to lock down some desktops so that these users can’t access certain Windows components, such as the Control Panel. He also wants some standardization in the look of users’ desktops, such as wallpaper and so forth. However, he’s not sure how to make these changes without affecting all users and computers. Write a short explanation of how GPOs can be applied. Include information about how policies defined in one place can take precedence over policies defined elsewhere.

Answer 1

Group Policy Object:

• This feature came along with the Windows Operating system in which we can implement a certain collection of the settings that will define how the systems will look like or work for the defined group of users without affecting rest of the devices in the network.
• This policy makes it very easy to implement such changes in the system and making them inaccessible too. The use of Group Policy Management Console makes it very easy to snap in with such manipulation in the users falling in certain groups and can be made changes to all the devices which fall in the same group.
• The GPO is being associated with the certain selected Active Directories in the containers such as the domains or the organizational units making it easy to define the following services easily:
  • Security Policies
  • Registry-based policies
  • Software Installations
  • Maintenance options
  • Running certain scripts
  • Folder Redirection
  • Changing the Look and Feel
• Hence, these are some of the services which can be easily provided to the system which fall under the certain group policies and making them even from all the views makes it completely great for the organizations.

Hence, this is how the GPO can be made use of in certain circumstances where some of the machines or devices are only required to be changed.