Msft2700 Quiz11 Ad_GPo

Windows Deployment Services is a server technology that enables IT administrators to deploy Windows operating systems quickly and efficiently across a network. It allows for the automated installation of Windows on multiple computers simultaneously, reducing the time and effort required for workstation deployment in an enterprise environment. Therefore, the statement that Windows Deployment Services assists in rebuilding or deploying workstations quickly and efficiently in an enterprise environment is true.

You can configure one or more GPOs within a domain and then use a process called linking, which applies these settings to various containers within Active Directory. You can link multiple GPOs to a single container or link one GPO to multiple containers throughout the Active Directory structure.

Loopback processing is a Group Policy option that provides an alternative method of obtaining the ordered list of GPOs to be processed for the user. When set to Enabled, this setting has two options: Merge and Replace.

Configuring Group Policy settings enables you to customize the configuration of a user’s desktop, environment, and security settings. The actual settings are divided into two subcategories: Computer Configuration and User Configuration. The subcategories are referred to as Group Policy nodes. A node is simply a parent structure that holds all related settings. In this case, the node is specific to computer configurations and user configurations.

Software installation policies can be used to ensure that users always have the latest versions of applications. If application files are inadvertently deleted, repairs are made without user intervention.

Group Policy Objects (GPOs) contain all of the Group Policy settings that you wish to implement to user and computer objects within a site, domain, or OU. The GPO must be associated with the container to which it is applied.

Group Policy is a method of controlling settings across your network. Group Policy consists of user and computer settings on the Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003 family, Microsoft Windows 2000 family, Window Vista, and Microsoft Windows XP Professional platforms that can be implemented during computer startup and shutdown and user logon and logoff.

Group Policies probably have their largest impact on reducing TCO due to their administrative benefits. Administrators find that Group Policy implementation helps them to achieve centralized management.

The administrative benefits to Group Policy implementation include: administrators have control over centralized configuration of user settings, application installation, and desktop configuration; problems due to missing application files and other minor application errors often can be alleviated by the automation of application repairs; centralized backup of user files eliminates the need and cost of trying to recover files from a damaged drive; and the need to manually make security changes is reduced by the rapid deployment of new settings through Group Policy.

Each computer running Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional, or Windows 2000 has only one local GPO, and the settings in that local GPO will apply to all users who log on to the computer. The local GPO settings are stored on the local computer in the %systemroot%/System32/GroupPolicy folder.

The Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) is the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that is used to create and modify Group Policies and their settings.

The Default Domain Policy is linked to the domain, and its settings affect all users and computers in the domain.

There are three types of GPOs: local GPOs, domain GPOs, and starter GPOs.

Configuring the Loopback Processing setting on a container object, such as a site, domain, or OU, will not block all policies from parent containers from flowing to this container. Loopback Processing allows policies to be applied to user accounts based on the location of the computer object, rather than the user object. This means that policies from both the parent container and the container itself will be applied to the user accounts. Therefore, the correct answer is False.

The Group Policy templates (GPT) folder structure is located in the shared SYSVOL folder on a domain controller. The path to the default GPT structure for the cohowinery.com domain is %systemroot%\sysvol\sysvol\cohowinery.com\Policies\. Replace %systemroot% with the folder location for the operating system files.

The Default Domain Policy is not linked to the Domain Controllers OU. It is linked to the root of the domain and its settings apply to all objects within the domain, including domain controllers. Therefore, the given statement is false.

Local GPOs do not support folder redirection and Group Policy software installation. These features are only supported by domain-based Group Policy Objects (GPOs). Local GPOs are limited to configuring security settings, auditing policies, and user rights assignments on a local computer.

Offline file storage works with folder redirection to provide the ability to cache files locally. This allows files to be available even when the network is inaccessible.

An advanced technique, called security group filtering, will allow you to apply GPO settings to only one or more users or groups within a container by selectively granting the “Apply Group Policy” permission to one or more users or security groups.