Other Great Training Resources

Randy Franklin Smith " UltimateWindowsSecurity.com

Windows security expert Randy will share his in-depth knowledge on how each Windows security technology works, how to plug the holes, how to solve real world security problems, what works, and what doesn't.

Jakob Heidelberg has a series of articles about GP over at WindowSecurity.com including some great information about Group Policy and Windows Vista, and a recent article about how to force remote group policy processing .

Mark Minasi, MR&D Mark is a great friend and a great resource. Get tons of great stuff at his web site.

Darwin Sanoy and his MSI Classes and Resources : If you're looking to get deeper into MSI internals and repackaging, Darwin does for MSI what I try to do for Group Policy.

Links to Group Policy Articles and Reviews

Review of one of our sponsors, Special Operations Deploy (SpecOps Deploy) from REDMOND Magazine.

Review of FullArmor's GPanywhere software from REDMOND Magazine.

6 Hot Technologies for 2006: Microsoft's Group Policy: Gives some excellent insight in how some companies are using Group Policy. (NetworkWorld - John Fontana)

Other Great Links to Group Policy Stuff

Group Policy Learning Guide from TechTarget

This SearchWin2000.com guide [and list of links] introduces you to Group Policy, explains best practices and pitfalls to avoid, and provides troubleshooting help and advice. You'll find Group Policy articles, tutorials, tips, tools, white papers, expert advice, and more to pump up your Group Policy know-how quickly.

Windows IT Pro Group Policy and Active Directory Survey

This is a survey from Windows IT Pro magazine about Group Policy usage. Very interesting. The survey had 217 respondents.

Darren Mar-Elia's GPOguy.com Web Site

Darren is a power-house of Group Policy knowledge! He works for Quest software and has a bunch of great resources available on his web site. Like me, he's also a Group Policy MVP, has several Group Policy books, and also writes great stuff for Windows IT Pro Magazine. He's got a great FAQ (way better than mine right now), a list of cool third party tools, and an ongoing listserv to talk about Group Policy issues. Definitely check it out!

Brian W. McCann's www.adminprep.com

This site has a bunch of really great Group Policy information. Specifically, it has some very sweet flash videos which Brian put together to show some of the finer points of Group Policy administration. Don't miss it!

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