Tag: GPOSecurity

AD Fundamentals: Group Policy Permissions & Owner Rights

This series of posts focuses on key Active Directory (AD) components that need to be secured in order to ensure AD security is leveled up. In this post, we focus on Group Policy Objects (GPOs) and their permissions. Group Policy provides the ability to change application settings, security settings, install and run code, and more! …

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Using Group Policy Preferences for Password Management = Bad Idea

Using Group Policy Preferences for Password Management = Bad Idea OR “How to Get Your Network Owned in Several Simple Steps” One of my customers recently needed to change the local administrator password on several hundred Windows 7 workstations and was trying to determine the best method: PowerShell script or Group Policy Preferences. The easy …

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