Best Practices

The following are best practices from this chapter:

• Use Windows Powershell ISE to learn how to properly format GPO related PowerShell cmdlets.

• Use commonsense naming conventions for GPOs.

• When you are working with GPOs, disable unused Computer and User Configuration nodes of the policy when possible.

• When you delegate the creation of GPOs to nonadministrators, also consider delegating the capability to manage the links for a specific OU and to allow these administrators to run modeling and to read Group Policy results data.

• Use the Enforced and Block Inheritance settings in GPOs sparingly.

• Only configure the default account policies for the entire domain in the default domain policy. Leave all other settings to separate ...

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