Active Directory & Group Policy Administration Basics for Helpdesk and Desktop / IT Support Technicians
Description
**UPDATED Nov 2023: Now with a quiz at the end of each section**
Active Directory has been around since Windows 2000 and is the largely the same for anything above this as this is the basic concept behind modern domains, and key concepts such as users, computers, groups and organisational units, are still used today as much as they were in the beginning.
Both Group Policy and Active Directory are key skills for any IT professional / helpdesk technician and are used almost universally in large companies that have an IT helpdesk. In this Active Directory and Group Policy course, you will learn the following:
How to manage Active Directory user accounts, groups and organisational units with the Active Directory users & computers console
Best practices when setting and resetting active directory account passwords
How to use the Active Directory search facility to easily find what you are looking for
Creating and managing group policies
The significance of local computer policies in relation to group policies
An explanation of user password policies
Group Policy Preferences
Starter GPOs
Replication and how the SYSVOL folder works
Also, there are a couple of shortcuts included in the course which you should find useful, as well as some tutorials on command line utilities that you may find useful within your IT support career.
Who this course is for:
- IT Support Technicians or Helpdesk staff who are looking to advance their careers
