Group Policies

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 look at how to manage local administrator passwords on a domain joined computers using the official Microsoft tool – LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution). The issue…

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.…

Originally, to configure Internet Explorer settings from central location (most often you need to specify proxy server configuration) using Group Policies in the Active Directory domain environment, the Internet Explorer…