Testimonials

“ Even after working with GPO's for several years now, the training was of great value to me. I did not regret [flying in from Europe] and joining the training for one second. On the one hand I got the confirmation that I was on the right track developing our current set of GPO's and on the other hand I learned a lot of new useful things. I can't wait to start with the preparations. ”


Frank Verheyen, Henkel International

“ After hearing Jeremy speak today about Roaming Profiles and Folder Redirection, I was immediately able to see how I can save my company time and resources with PC deployments and redeployments. After working with Jeremy’s labs for the GPPEs [from the Group Policy 2.0 class] I can see many realworld applications that I can put into production immediately. ”


Les Shigley, Technology Specialist (Desktop Support), Sakuma Bros.

“ I finally figured out how we would block out USB ports and games and lockdown users. This alone made the entire class an extremely valuable and fun learning experience. I learned how to use Vista’s event viewer to track a single event in group policy ‐ so easy but powerful! I learned how to set up various restrictions on a PC for different users. A tremendously valuable feature! I cannot wait to get back to the office and implement what I have learned. I highly recommend the whole week to anyone who has anything to do with Group Policy. Nothing beats these classes, nothing. ”


Mark Latham, PC Support Specialist, Mercy Regional Medical Center

Group Policy Training - Live and Online


 

Why do I need
Group Policy Training?

Most companies spend a fortune in planning and migrating to Active Directory. Then once they have Active Directory in place, the next logical question is "What do we do with it?"

Group Policy is what you do with Active Directory - you control and manage your clients and servers with the nearly limitless power it offers.

We have several classes to choose from including public, private, and sponsored classes.

What is meant by "public, private and sponsored" classes?

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Download a PDF brochure with all of our classes

This class is taught by Group Policy MVP and expert instructor Jeremy Moskowitz and other GPanswers.com expert instructors.

Intermediate / Expert

This one-day class can be taken on its own, or after completing the two-day intensive or three-day less-intensive workshop.

Here's an overview of what you'll learn in your Advanced Group Policy 1-Day Intensive Training.

Part 1: Total Lockdown with Microsoft SteadyState (aka the Shared Computer Toolkit v 2.0)

You have public computers, kiosk computers, library computers. And you want to let the good guys run specific applications and get to specific network locations. And you want to keep the bad guys out and prevent them from making changes to your machines. What are you going to do?

  • SteadyState prerequisites
  • Installing SteadyState
  • Configuring a public profile
  • Configuring an alternate profile (Teacher vs. Student)
  • Utilizing Windows Disk Protection
  • Deploying and Configuring SteadyState with Group Policy and scripts
Part 2: Group Policy Tools

Microsoft offers a wealth of tools that each do a specific job to help you troubleshoot Group Policy problems. In this session, we'll walk through a toolbox full of goodies you can use to streamline your processes, troubleshoot easier, and get to the heart of what's ailing your systems.

  • Log files for Group Policy enhanced logging
  • Group Policy resource kit tools
  • PolicySpy
  • GPMonitor
  • GPInventory
  • Free add-on tools from third-party vendors
Part 3: ADM / ADMX Files and Registry punches

One of the key tasks that all administrators want to do is to push out their own registry tweaks. This becomes a problem using Group Policy, because the interface is troublesome to work with. Instead, you can create ADM and ADMX files to do the work for you, and once performed, you can recycle these ADM and ADMX files and provide them to other administrators.

Additionally, some third party tools are useful here to help with this task.

  • Creating ADM and ADMX files
  • Converting ADM files to ADMX files
  • Using tools to create ADM and ADMX files
  • Using 3rd party tools to make remote registry changes
Part 4: Test Labs and Migration Tables

Creating your GPOs in the "live" environment to test isn't such a hot idea. A lot can go wrong. To that end, a best practice is to test your GPOs in a test lab first, then get them into production.

  • Setting up your test lab
  • Backing up the files
  • Importing them
  • Dealing with UNC and Group membership problems

PDF: Download This Workshop's Brochure

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