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Group Policy Training - Live and Online

Overview >> Advanced workshop
Advanced Workshop

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Advanced Workshop

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Why do I need advanced knowledge?

The Essentials course gives you a strong foundation in how to use Group Policy. But this course dives even deeper and gives you tools to lock down your systems, and helps you fine tune your skills and deploy the specific settings you need. This course covers both XP and Vista topics.

Who should take this course?
This is the perfect class if you've ever taken the Group Policy Essentials class, or if you already have lots of day-to-day Group Policy experience with Windows Server and Windows XP.

Even though this course covers both XP and Vista topics, you don’t need to have taken the Vista Group Policy Catch-up training to excel at this course.

What material does this course cover?

In a nutshell, you’ll learn the following topics:

1. How to lock down your computers to make them more secure and completely prevent
changes

2. How to leverage third-party tools to implement Group Policy changes faster

3. How to troubleshoot issues on desktops and servers using free add-on tools

4. How to implement specific Registry punches and deal with third-party Registry tools

5. How to leverage a test lab to make sure you work smartly and safely

 

HOW IS THIS COURSE DIFFERENT THAN OUR OTHER COURSES

Let's recap our other courses first:
  • You've got the "core knowledge" with our Essentials training.
  • You've got the catch-up training (for Vista/Win7/Server 2008/GP Preferences) with our GP 2.0 Catch-up course.
 
Now, let's do even more interesting stuff with our new Group Policy super-knowledge!
 
This course helps you really SOLVE some of the key PROBLEMS you're facing in your environment RIGHT NOW. Learn how to TOTALLY lock down machines. Learn how to enhance your environment with free, trial, and pay third party tools. And, what's more, learn how NOT to shoot yourself in the foot with all this new-found knowledge.
 
Some people have said that the advanced course was the most helpful for them, because it really tied together ACTION ITEMS they could walk away with and use immediately.

BRIEF OUTLINE

Part I: Total Lockdown with Windows SteadyState 2.0

You have public computers, kiosk computers, and 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. Group Policy does a pretty good job of delivering settings, but it doesn’t put the hardened shell you need on your computers for true bullet-proof computing. With Windows SteadyState, you’ve got the tool you need. You just need to learn how to best use it.

Part II: 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 that you can use to streamline your processes, troubleshoot more easily, and get to the heart of what's ailing your systems

Part III: 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 files to do the work for you, and you can recycle these files and share them with other administrators.

Part IV: Building Your Test Lab

Creating your GPOs directly in the live environment isn't such a hot idea. A lot can go wrong. For this reason, a best practice is to test your GPOs in a test lab first, then move them into production. You'll learn how to set up your test lab and make sure you don't shoot yourself in the foot when you roll into production.

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WHAT STUDENTS NEED

  •  Prerequisites for the Advanced class:
    • Students should first take the GP Essentials class or have equivalent knowledge. Students should be able to create and manage GPOs with link properties, understand how to perform security filtering, how to perform loopback processing, and how to create WMI filters. If students do not have knowledge of these concepts they may have trouble if they skip to the Advanced course.
  • About the Hands-On Labs
    • While not strictly required, this class is enhanced if the attendees each bring their own laptop to class. This is so we can perform real-world workshop experiments to solidify the concepts learned during the lecture and demonstrations. Each attendee should come to class with a laptop with at least the following specifications
      • Windows XP or greater
      • Local administrative logon rights
      • Pentium III at 500 Mhz (Pentium 4 at 1Ghz or Pentium Centrino at 1Ghz Recommended)
      • 2GB RAM Required (3-4 GB RAM STRONGLY RECOMMENDED)
      • 45GB free hard drive space
      • USB 2.0 ports that are unlocked such that we can install our lab environment
Students should not bring laptops to class without these requirements, or else they cannot participate in the hands-on labs.

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