Chapter 6. Enhancing Computer Security

Sound security practices and settings are essential to successful system administration. Two key ways to configure security settings are to use security templates and security policies. Both of these features manage system settings that you would typically manage through Group Policy otherwise.

Using Security Templates

Security templates provide a centralized way to manage security-related settings for workstations and servers. You use security templates to apply customized sets of Group Policy definitions to specific computers.

These policy definitions generally affect the following policies:

  • Account policies Control security for passwords, ...

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