Nt1330 Unit 6 Paper

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Lab four allowed for the exploration of creating and configuring group policy and password settings objects within a Windows Active Directory environment. Throughout the course of this lab, the general three parts of Active Directory were present, including the planning and installation phase, the configuration phase and the administration phase. Upon successful installation of Active Directory Domain Services on a Windows 2012 server and promotion of the server to a domain controller, groups and organizational units were created and used in conjunction with new group policies and password settings. This marks the fourth lab in which I have installed and promoted a Windows 2012 server to be a domain controller using Active Directory. Completing multiple installations has enabled me to become confident in my abilities to install and configure the basic functions of this popular service. While I generally feel very comfortable working with Active Directory, I have not had the opportunity to work with Group Policy Objects (GPOs) or Password Settings Objects (PSOs). In addition to the basic instructions outlined in the lab guide, I utilized many Microsoft resources, in particular the TechNet, to learn about the various functions of GPOs, their configuration, and how inheritance affects enforcement. About two-thirds of my time working on this lab …show more content…
Within a PSO, an administrator can define specific password configurations, including password complexity requirements, minimum password age, account lockout duration, account lockout threshold, and maximum password length (AD DS: Fine grained, 2012). A group can have multiple PSOs defined, but the priority setting of the object will determine which settings are applied. When a user has been assigned a PSO, the default domain password policy is