Introducing Active Directory - MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration - page 99

Activity 3-9: Exploring Default GPOs

Time Required: 30 minutes
Objective: Explore the two default GPOs in Active Directory.
Description: You want to begin using GPOs to manage users and computers in your network, so
as a first step, you decide to familiarize yourself with the default GPOs linked to the domain and
the Domain Controllers OU.
1. Log on to your server as Administrator, if necessary.
2. Click Start , point to Administrative Tools , and click Group Policy Management .
3. In the left pane, click to expand the Forest and Domains nodes, if necessary.
4. Click to expand your domain name under the Domains node, if necessary. You should see a
window similar to Figure 3-17, shown previously.
5. Click Default Domain Policy . If a Group Policy Management Console message appears, read
the message, click the Do not show this message again check box, and then click OK .
6. In the right pane, click the Scope tab, if necessary (see Figure 3-18). The Links section shows
you which container objects are linked to this GPO. In this case, your domain should be the
only container linked. All objects in a container linked to the GPO are affected by that GPO.

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Figure 3-18

The Scope tab

7. Click the Settings tab, shown in Figure 3-19. (The settings might take a few seconds to be
displayed.) You can view GPO settings here, but you can't change them.