Implement Group Policy Inheritance and Filtering

45 minutes
  • 4 Learning Objectives

About this Hands-on Lab

In this hands-on lab, you will take on the role of network engineer and learn the steps needed to configure security filtering, create and apply a WMI filter, and report results using `gpresult`.

Learning Objectives

Successfully complete this lab by achieving the following learning objectives:

Edit the Group Policy

Edit a Group Policy in main-vm:

  1. Rename the default to TestGPO
  2. Confirm the change in PowerShell
  3. Remove authenticated users from security filtering
Prepare test-vm and Validate the GPO Settings

Validate that the GPO settings are correct and prepare test-vm by promoting it to a domain controller and connecting it to the corp.sandynetworking01.com domain:

  1. Promote test-vm to a domain controller
  2. Connect test-vm to corp.sandynetworking01.com
  3. Verify that the Test GPO is visible and listed under Filtering: Denied (Security)
Add a Computer and Verify

Add test-vm under the security filter for the Test GPO policy. Once that’s complete, verify in test-vm that the updates were successful.

Add a WMI Filter for Windows 2019 and Earlier

Jump back into main-vm and create a WMI filter for Windows 2019 and earlier. Verify that this update took effect in test-vm.

Additional Resources

Scenario

Welcome to Fiji! Our company, Sand, Sun, and Oddly Networking, Inc., is a global chain of luxury hotels that specializes in tropical locations. Your CIO has been impressed by the progress your organization has made in implementing networks. Now, he would like to begin implementing more complex group policies. Along with that complexity, there is a need to begin filtering policies through filters. In this hands-on lab, you will take on the role of network engineer and learn the steps needed to configure security filtering, create and apply a WMI filter, and report results using gpresult.

If you get stuck, feel free to check out the lab objectives or the solution video. Good luck!


WARNING: Be Prepared for UI Changes

Given the fluid nature of Microsoft's cloud tools, you may experience user interface (UI) changes that were made following the development of this hands-on lab that do not match up with the lab instructions. When any such changes are brought to our attention, we will attempt to update the content accordingly. However, if changes occur, students will have to adapt to the changes and work through them in the hands-on lab as needed.

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