One-Day Advanced Group Policy Workshop (XP/Vista Focused)

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

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Mon, Aug 18 - Fri, Aug 22
Five Day Windows Server 2008 Upgrade Course
 James Conrad is teaching this class for a California University. If you're interested in your own Windows Server 2008 Upgrade Course let us know!
Mon, Aug 25 - Tue, Aug 26
Two-Day Intensive Group Policy Essentials Workshop (taught by Jeremy Moskowitz (Lead Instructor) - GPanswers.com / Moskowitz, Inc. )
 Full week of classes in Atlanta, GA!  
This is a Two-Day Intensive Group Policy Essentials Workshop in Atlanta, GA !
Wed, Aug 27 - Thu, Aug 28
Two-Day "Group Policy 2.0" Catch-Up Workshop (taught by Jeremy Moskowitz (Lead Instructor) - GPanswers.com / Moskowitz, Inc. )
 Full week of classes in Atlanta, GA!  
This is a Two-Day "Group Policy 2.0" Catch-Up Workshop in Atlanta, GA !
Fri, Aug 29 - Fri, Aug 29
One-Day Advanced Group Policy Workshop (XP/Vista Focused) (taught by Jeremy Moskowitz (Lead Instructor) - GPanswers.com / Moskowitz, Inc. )
 Full week of classes in Atlanta, GA!  
This is a One-Day Advanced Group Policy Workshop (XP/Vista Focused) in Atlanta, GA !

Here's what administrators like you had to say about the class

“ After taking Jeremy's Group Policy Class, my staff and I were able to reduce the number of help desk calls dramatically! Thank you Jeremy! ”

Scott Iver, MCSE Systems Administrator, Royal Canin USA, Inc.

“ 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

“ After hearing Jeremy speak today, I immediately was able to see that there are some things we can do in much more efficient ways. I immediately was able to come up with a solution for something we have wanted to do but have been unable to do. I immediately was able to figure out that there are some things we can do that we didn't even realize we might want to do. ”

Sam Lair, System Technician, Sr. (Office of the CIO), State of Idaho