Lab
A Cloud Guru

Restrict Windows Server Access to a Specific Active Directory Group

You are working on securing your Windows Servers, and as part of the effort, you want to make sure that only the correct people can log into them. You want to make sure that the employees on the sales team cannot access the servers via remote desktop. In order to do this, in this hands-on lab, you are going to create a Group Policy to deny access to any user in the **Sales** group if they try to log in.

Try for free Contact sales

Path Info

Level

Intermediate

Duration

1h 0m

Published

Jan 26, 2023

Challenge

Configure the Active Directory Domain Services Environment
- Confirm the private IP address of the domain controller VM is set to Static
- Install Active Directory Domain Services
  - Download the installadds PowerShell script from the GitHub repository
Challenge

Restrict Access to Domain Controller Using Group Policy Object
- Configure the following users and groups:
  - Create the Domain Admin user
  - Create a Sales group
  - Create an awesomesales user and add it to the Sales group
  - Download the configureusersandgroup PowerShell script from the GitHub repository
- Create a Group Policy Object
- Deny remote access to the Sales group using the Deny log on through Remote Desktop Services group setting
Challenge

Confirm Sales User Cannot Remotely Connect to Domain Controller
- Log in to the VM
- Attempt to remote into the domain controller virtual machine using the Sales user account
- Confirm that the settings have been applied by the GPO

Author

A Cloud Guru

The Cloud Content team comprises subject matter experts hyper focused on services offered by the leading cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, and Azure), as well as cloud-related technologies such as Linux and DevOps. The team is thrilled to share their knowledge to help you build modern tech solutions from the ground up, secure and optimize your environments, and so much more!

What's a lab?

Hands-on Labs are real environments created by industry experts to help you learn. These environments help you gain knowledge and experience, practice without compromising your system, test without risk, destroy without fear, and let you learn from your mistakes. Hands-on Labs: practice your skills before delivering in the real world.