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Dishan Francis
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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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The Group Policy template

When we looked at the Group Policy capabilities, we saw that policies can be used to publish applications, run start up/shutdown scripts, and more. From the Active Directory object's point of view, all of these policy settings are attributes and all scripts and files used in the policy need to be saved in a centralized location for processing. Instead of saving them in an Active Directory database, the system saves all of these policy-related files and settings in the SYSVOL folder. The default path for the Group Policy template (GPT) data is \\rebeladmin.com\SYSVOL\rebeladmin.com\Policies. Here, rebeladmin.com can be replaced with your domain's fully qualified domain name (FQDN).

Inside the policy folder, there are two subfolders called Machine and User. These folders contain files and settings related to the GPO's computer configuration and user configuration. There is another file called GPT.INI, which contains the version number of...

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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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