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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Group Policy capabilities

Group Policy can be used to perform many different tasks in an infrastructure. Here, I have listed some of these capabilities:

  • Group Policy can be linked to sites, domains, and organization units. This allows us to match the Group Policy requirements with the Active Directory structure. However, Group policies cannot be applied to default containers in Active Directory.
  • Group Policy allows us to use security filtering to target specific groups, users, or computers.
  • Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) filters are capable of filtering the AD objects based on criteria such as the OS version, roles, and system configuration. Group Policy allows us to use WMI filters for targeting.
  • The Group Policy Object (GPO) status can change based on operational requirements. If required, group policies can disable group policies completely, or disable user or computer settings individually.
  • Group Policy management tasks can be delegated...
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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