Group Policies

Group Policy allows you to run various script files at a computer startup/shutdown or during user logon/logout. You can use GPOs not only to run classic batch files on a…

By default, when you create a new Active Directory users, they are automatically added to the Domain Users group. In its turn, the Domain Users group is by default added…

In this article, we’ll take a look on how to manage local administrator passwords on a domain joined computers using the official Microsoft tool – LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution).…

To protect user accounts in the Active Directory domain, an administrator must configure and implement a domain password policy that provides sufficient complexity and length of a password as well…

WMI filters in Group Policy (GPO) allow you to more flexibly apply policies to clients by using different rules. A WMI filter is a set of WMI queries (the WMI…

When you connect a new device to your computer, laptop or tablet, Windows tries to automatically install a corresponding driver. The operation system further tries to update the driver version…

GPResult.exe is a console administrative tool designed to analyze and diagnose group policy settings that are applied to a computer and/or user in the Active Directory domain. In particular, GPResult…

Group policies are a powerful and at the same time flexible tool to configure Windows settings and are indispensable means of bringing computers to a single configuration in the Active…

When connecting a new USB device to the computer, Windows automatically detects the device and installs an appropriate driver, which means that the user can almost immediately use a connected…

In this article, I have tried to collect all major organizational and technical rules of using privileged / administrative accounts in the organization to improve security in the Windows network.…