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Windows® Group Policy Administrator's Pocket Consultant

Windows® Group Policy Administrator's Pocket Consultant
By William R. Stanek

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Portable and precise, this pocket-sized guide delivers ready answers for the day-to-day administration of Group Policy. Zero in on core support and maintenance tasks using quick-reference tables, instructions, and lists. You’ll get the focused information you need to solve problems and get the job done—whether at your desk or in the field!

Get fast facts to:

  • Configure Local GPOs and Active Directory-based GPOs
  • Manage policy preferences and settings
  • Model policy changes through the console
  • Migrate and maintain the SYSVOL
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot replication issues
  • Know when to enforce, block, or override inheritance
  • Filter policy settings, search GPOs, and manage permissions
  • Use Advanced Group Policy Management, including change control
  • Manage operating system-specific deployment issues

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #55731 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-02-11
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 336 pages

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Should be REQUIRED reading for all IT Pros5
William Stanek never ceases to amaze me with how much great info he can pack into his pocket consultants. There's not one that's not worth it's weight in gold and I mean that. His are the only books I've ever read front to back and then gone back in for a second or third read with highlighter in hand. Everyone in IT I work with has at least one of his books if not several and sometimes several copies of the ones they have.

I bought three copies of this and three copies of Active Directory® Administrator's Pocket Consultant (Administrators Pocket Consultant). I kept one of each and gave out the rest in my last staff meeting. There are no other books I will buy for my team, because no other books are as good. I am also grown up enough to admit knowledge I got from his books over the years are what earned me multiple promotions.

What makes this book so good is its relentless focus on what matters and the deep level of technical information William shares. William knows Windows and Microsoft products better than any 10 other tech experts on the planet put together.

No other Group Policy book I've ever read has been as good and what's even better is William does this in less than 320 pages. The 600+ page book I had before this didn't explain half of this even half as well. I'll finish by also saying this book should be used with William's Windows Server 2008 Inside Out.

A Must Read!5
Out of all the Windows 2008 books I have, this one stands out as the best. William Stanek is a great writer, and has put together a stellar book that should be required reading for every System Administrator!

Another great one from Stanek!5
In the past few years William Stanek has become the only computer book author who matters. When he has a book coming out, I pre-order it sight unseen because I know it is going to be the best, the most definitive and the one I use on whatever subject he writes about. I was so eager to get this one I pre-ordered it and then when it didn't come on time, I went out and bought it too. When the copy I ordered came I had two copies and I use them both!

Every network admin, win admin, networker, IT pro, developer, whatever needs to read this book. Buy it, steal, borrow it, but read it. It'll do more for your understanding of Group Policy than books 2 or 3 times as long - and that's what's so amazing about Stanek's books. Clear, concise, to the point. Right on. Pure gold.

To be clear, it's not everything you need to know, but you do need to know what's in here and you might as well get it straight from the master himself.