• Organisation’s needs concerning centralised managing of computer and user settings.
• Organisation’s needs related to providing assumed security level.
• Active Directory infrastructure.
• Network infrstructure components.
• Designing infrastructure of organisational units in terms of effective appliance of group policies.

1. Introduction to Windows PowerShell.

• Introduction to Windows PowerShell.
• Group Policy module commands.
• Additional modules to manage GPO with PowerShell Gallery.
• Login scripts.
• Remote management

1. Introduction to Windows PowerShell.

• Configuration management.
• Configuration management using group policies.
• New group policies functions introduced in the following versions of Windows Server.
• Using Windows PowerShell in configuration management.

1. Tools for group policy management.

• Local and domain policies.
• Group Policy Management Console (GPMC).
• GPO refreshing process.
• Configuring group policies for remote management with Server Manager

1. Introduction to managing and processing group policies.

• Permissions to manage Group Policy Objects.
• Group Policy components in Active Directory.
• Processing group policies.
• Modification of group policies processing.

1. Providing assumed security level with group policies.

• Security architecture components for Windows.
• User account security.
• Local policy.
• Advanced inspection.
• Hardening Windows environment
• Certificate management using group policies.
• Security log analyis.

1. Providing application security with group policies.

• Managing UAC settings.
• Anti-malware protection.
• The use of AppLocker for applications constraints.

1. Configuring working stations environment.

• Types of scripts and controlling their execution.
• Desktop, Menu Start menu and taskbar settings.
• Navigation panel settings.
• Windows components.
• Printers management.
• Network settings.

1. User status virtualisation.

• Configuring folder redirection.
• Managing Offline files.
• Deploying User Experience Virtualization.

1. Managing software installation using group policies.

• Distributing applications using MSI bundles.
• Application distribution points.
• Bundle management.

1. Administration templates.

• Introduction to administration templates.
• Managing ADMX templates.
• Preparing and managing Central Store.
• Deploying and managing Microsoft software and third party companies using administration templates.

1. Group policy preferences.

• Introduction to group policy preferences.
• Comparing preferences and group policies
• Configuration options of preferences.

1. Troubleshooting and back-up.

• Troubleshooting tools.
• Group’s Resultant Set Of Policies (RSOP).
• Event viewer.
• Back-up, restoring, importing and copying Group Policy Objects