Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory

13. Administering Security with Group Policy Exam Objectives in this Chapter: Create a password policy for domain users. Configure the user environment by using Group Policy. Automatically enroll user certificates by using Group Pol...

Why This Chapter Matters This chapter shows you how to administer security with Group Policy, which is essential to meet the challenge of protecting your organization from outside forces. Software restriction policies, new in Microsoft Windows X...

Before You Begin To complete the lessons in this chapter, you must Prepare your test environment according to the descriptions given in the "Getting Started" section of "About This Book"Complete the practices for installing ...

Lesson 1. Understanding Active Directory Security Active Directory security is determined by security groups, access control, delegation of control, and Group Policy. This lesson briefly reviews security groups, access control, and delegation ...

Lesson 2. Implementing Software Restriction Policies In the business computing environment, a wide variety of software applications are available to users from many sources. Documents and Web pages can contain executable code in scripts, and e...

Lesson 3. Implementing an Audit Policy Audit policies allow you to track user activities and system-wide events in the security log in the Event Viewer console. In this lesson, you learn how to plan and set up an audit policy. After this le...

Lesson 4. Administering the Security Log The security log contains information on security events that are specified in the audit policy. To administer the security log, you use the Event Viewer console. This lesson shows you how to view, find...

Lesson 5. Using Security Templates Windows Server 2003 provides a centralized method of configuring security by using security templates. This lesson explains how to use security templates. After this lesson, you will be able to Explain th...

Lesson 6. Using Security Configuration And Analysis The Security Configuration And Analysis feature in Windows Server 2003 offers administrators the ability to configure security, analyze security, view results, and resolve any discrepancies r...

Case Scenario Exercise You are a computer consultant. Lisa Jacobson, the Chief Information Officer of Tailspin Toys, has several security concerns that she's contracted you to help her solve. The Tailspin Toys network consists of two Active Direct...

Troubleshooting Lab You are a network administrator for Contoso Pharmaceuticals. Several servers in your organization store trade secrets that must be protected from attack. Firewalls and virus scanners are in place to keep these servers safe. I...

Chapter Summary Security settings define the security behavior of the system. Through the use of GPOs in Active Directory, administrators can apply security profiles to sites, domains, and OUs in the enterprise.Software restriction policies are se...

Exam Highlights Before taking the exam, review the key points and terms that are presented in this chapter. You need to know this information. Key Points You configure computer security settings using Group Policy security settings, which defi...

Questions and Answers Lesson 1 Review Page13-11 1.How are account policies different from other security policies? A1: Account policies can be applied only to the root domain of the domain tree. They cannot be applied t...