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Create Group Policy to Lock User’s Workstation after 20 minutes of inactivity (Windows 10)

December 1, 2020

Active Directory / GPO / DNS / DHCP Windows 10

December 4, 2020

Its a best practice to lock the workstation whenever you are stepping away from the desk, whether its for few minutes or few hours. But, we know that this practice is not 100% followed leaving the workstation not secured / exposed for information leak. Therefore, you can create a Group Policy to automatically lock users workstation after X minutes of inactivity. X can be any value between 1 second to maximum of 86,400 Seconds (24 hours). Lets see how it can be configured. Create a new Group Policy e.g. Workstation_AutoLock_Policy. Edit the Group Policy -> User Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates -> Control Panel -> Personalization Configure the settings: …

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October 23, 2020

Active Directory / GPO / DNS / DHCP

April 12, 2021

In this post, I will show you how to add a user to the Local Administrators Group on the machines using GPO. Point to note that this procedure is not limited to adding a user to local Administrators group. You can use the process to rename, create or delete a Local Group (by selecting different Action in the GPO setting). We will choose Update Action as we are updating Local Administrators Group. We will be using Group Policy Preferences (GPP) to complete this task. You can use Restricted Groups GPO setting as well, but using Restricted Groups you cannot add users to the Local Groups. For adding a user to …