Active Directory Administration & Basics of Active Directory

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John Courtenay

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1 - Active Directory Introduction

1 - Making the most of this course.mp4

00:40

1 - Section 1 Quiz.html

2 - Introduction to Active Directory.mp4

01:35

3 - Active Directory Overview.mp4

02:22

2 - Active Directory User Accounts

2 - Section 2 Quiz.html

4 - Creating a new user account.mp4

03:06

5 - Configuring user account options.mp4

03:05

6 - Local and domain accounts.mp4

02:38

3 - Active Directory Profiles and OUs

3 - Section 3 Quiz.html

7 - Local roaming and mandatory user profiles.mp4

02:39

8 - Organisational units OUs.mp4

02:29

4 - Active Directory Groups Object Nesting

4 - Section 4 Quiz.html

9 - Creating new groups.mp4

02:34

10 - Managing groups.mp4

02:23

11 - Object nesting.mp4

02:25

5 - Active Directory Searching Changing Moving Objects

5 - Section 5 Quiz.html

12 - Searching for AD users computers and groups.mp4

02:17

13 - Moving and changing the status of AD objects.mp4

02:19

6 - Group Policy Introduction

6 - Section 6 Quiz.html

14 - Introduction.mp4

01:57

15 - Group Policy Management Console.mp4

02:37

16 - Group Policy Overview.mp4

02:52

7 - Group Policy UserComputer Policies GPP

7 - Section 7 Quiz.html

17 - User and Computer Policies.mp4

02:33

18 - Group Policy Precedence.mp4

02:12

8 - Group Policy Password Policies Policy Differences

8 - Section 8 Quiz.html

19 - Password Policies.mp4

02:22

20 - Policy differences between Windows versions.mp4

02:14

9 - Group Policy WMI Filters Starter GPOs

9 - Section 9 Quiz.html

21 - WMI Filters.mp4

02:07

22 - Starter GPOs.mp4

02:07

10 - Group Policy Modeling Commands

10 - Section 10 Quiz.html

23 - Group Policy Modeling.mp4

02:05

24 - Gpupdate Gpresult and RSOP Commands.mp4

02:34

11 - Group Policy Preferences Replication

11 - Section 11 Quiz.html

25 - Group Policy Preferences.mp4

02:09

26 - Group Policy Replication.mp4

02:13

12 - Bonus lecture

27 - Bonus lecture.html

Description

Key Skills For Active Directory Administration - Know your way around Active Directory and Group Policy administration

What You'll Learn?

Creating and managing user accounts
The difference between different types of user profiles
The difference between local and domain accounts
How to search for users, contacts, groups and computer objects
Creating and managing security groups and OUs
How security group and organisational unit (OU) nesting works
How to manage group policies using the Group Policy Management Console
Group policy processing involving multiple levels of Group Policy
Quiz at the end of each section to check your knowledge

Who is this for?

IT Support Technicians or Helpdesk staff who are looking to advance their careers

What You Need to Know?

To have basic knowledge of using a computer system in general (i.e. home use)

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Description
Active Directory has been around since Windows 2000 and is the largely the same for anything above this as this is the basic concept behind modern domains, and key concepts such as users, computers, groups and organisational units, are still used today as much as they were in the beginning within the world of Active Directory administration.

Both Group Policy and Active Directory are key skills for any IT professional / helpdesk technician and are used almost universally in large companies that have an ITÂ helpdesk. In this Active Directory and Group Policy course, you will learn the following:

Â How to manage Active Directory user accounts, groups and organisational units with the Active Directory users & computers console
Â Best practices when setting and resetting active directory account passwords
Â How to use the Active Directory search facility to easily find what you are looking for
Â Creating and managing group policies
* The significance of local computer policies in relation to group policies
* An explanation of user password policies
* Group Policy Preferences
Â Starter GPOs
Â Replication and how the SYSVOL folder works

Also, there are a couple of shortcuts included in the course which you should find useful, as well as some tutorials on command line utilities that you may find useful within your ITÂ support career.
Who this course is for:
IT Support Technicians or Helpdesk staff who are looking to advance their careers

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