Active Directory / GPO / DNS / DHCP

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

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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 …

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Active Directory / GPO / DNS / DHCP

Add an Active Directory user to the Local Administrators Group using Group Policy (GPO)

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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 …

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