Windows 2000: Group Policy, Profiles, and IntelliMirror (The Mark Minasi Windows 2000 Series)

From the Publisher: Authoritative Answers to All Your Group Policy Questions-And More If you're stuck troubleshooting a tough Group Policy problem, you'll be thankful for this book. Windows 2000: Group Policy, Profiles, and IntelliMirror helps you harness the full power of these Windows facilities, teaching you, step-by-step, the techniques that will make you, your network, and its users more productive. Hundreds of clear, consistent examples illustrate these techniques in detail-so you stay on track and accomplish all your administration goals. Coverage includes: * Creating and deploying simple and advanced Group Policies at local, site, domain, and OU levels * Using Group Policies to deploy and manage Office 2000 and Office XP * Troubleshooting Group Policies using Support tools, Resource Kit utilities, log files, Registry hacks, and third-party tools * Modeling and deploying a secure environment with the Security Configuration and Analysis tools * Setting up Windows 2000 Local, Roaming, and Mandatory profiles * Setting up, managing, and governing IntelliMirror components with Group Policy * Assigning and publishing software packages to users and computers using IntelliMirror * Setting up hundreds of new Windows 2000 Professional machines with Remote Installation Services * Understanding interactions and migration issues with Windows 9x/NT System Policies and Windows 2000 Group Policies * Creating custom Group Policies to manage your own desktop applications About the Series The Mark Minasi Windows 2000 Series is designed to equip system administrators with in-depth technical solutions to the many challenges associated with administering Windows 2000 in an enterprise setting. The series editor is leading Windows NT/2000 expert Mark Minasi, who selects the topics and authors and develops and reviews each book to ensure that every entry in the series meets your needs and helps you achieve your goals. Author's Comments I wanted to write this book to ramp up those who have never deployed Group Policies by showing, step-by-step how to create and deploy some useful initial Group Policies. For those already familiar with Group Policy exposure, I wanted this book to dive in to the finer points of Group Policy administration, such as using Group Policy filtering, Inheritance Blocking, No Override, and Loopback Policy Processing. If you're troubleshooting a Group Policy problem, I feel this book excels in detailing where to start your search. You can discover precisely how a Group Policy is created, how it replicates to additional systems, and when and how it is finally applied to your client systems. Every step of the process is detailed, with real-world mechanisms for troubleshooting and debugging should you hit a snag. If you're tasked with rolling out one, one hundred, or one thousand applications across your environment, this book will show you how to package your applications for deployment as well as walk you though exactly how best to target the application. If you are deploying custom applications, this book will show you how to create your own custom policies to control and manage the applications you are deploying, or even the applications already deployed. If any of these tasks falls within your responsibility, you'll likely start off using this book as a learning guide, then continue to use it as a desk reference when your tasks and needs evolve. About the Author Since becoming one of the world's first MCSEs in Windows NT and Windows 2000, Jeremy Moskowitz has performed Windows NT, Windows 2000, and SMS planning and implementation for some of the world's largest organizations. Jeremy has spoken at some of the world's most prestigious conferences including Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine's TechMentor, Windows 2000 Magazine's WinConnections and MIS Training Institute's Windows 2000 Security and Control Conference. Jeremy is a contributing editor for MCP Magazine and has additionally written for BackOffice Magazine, Windows NT Magazine, Windows PRO Magazine, Online Training Magazine, PC Magazine, Element-K Professional Journals, BYTE.COM and ENT Magazine.