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Mastering Group Policy on Windows Server (Udemy.com)

An IT person's guide to managing Active Directory Users and Computers with Group Policy

4.5
3,556 reviews

Created by: Kevin Brown

Last updated October 2025

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What you will learn

  • Create GPOs
  • Troubleshoot GPO processing
  • Design Active Directory structures to facilitate group policy processing
  • Add third party settings into group policy
  • Control user and computer settings, including account policies, security settings, folder redirection, desktop settings, application settings, and many more

How it compares

Against the other 112 rated Udemy courses in Windows Server on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 50% of them
  • Reviews3,556#18 of 113 by number of reviews
  • Length3.3 hoursshorter than 80% of them
  • Last updatedOctober 2025more recently than 66% of them

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Course Description

Mastering Group Policy on Windows Server applies to Windows Server 2022, 2019, and 2016.  This course is designed to teach Group Policy management to those that need to utilize group policy and other Active Directory tools to manage users and computers within their environments or to anyone that wants to able to understand group policy processing and capabilities at an Active Directory level.

In this course you will gain a deep understanding for different considerations of Active Directory design that can impact how group policies are applied. You will gain insight into the decisions made to design Forest, Domain and Organizational Unit structures to ensure that they allow group policies to be effectively applied. You will also learn to plan for various considerations- for example, some users accounts of computer accounts may need to be exempt from a group policy object, you will learn the options that are available for that type of scenario.

This course will cover the following topics, and more.

· Group Policy processing order with Active Directory

· Altering the processing order with Active Directory

· Software deployment

· Central store design

· Administrative templates

· Security settings

· Firewall management

· Password polices

· User rights assignments

· Preferences

· App locker restrictions

· Folder redirection

· Starter GPO design

· Scripts

· Delegation

· Refresh intervals

· Troubleshooting GPO issues

· Backup/restore/copy/import
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Instructor Details

Kevin Brown

I have been in the technology field for more than 20 years.  I have been a high performing Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 2000 and a Cisco Certified Systems Instructor since 2006.  I began my career in telecommunications more than 20 years ago.  Since then I have worked as a Systems Admin, Network Admin, System integrator, Solutions Architect, and CTO. My courses are not presentations that rely on slides to explain concepts.  My goal is to demonstrate every concept covered, instead of using slides that cover theory, we will use the interface to configure every setting that is discussed.  In my view, if you do not know how to complete a task that a course covered, that course was not beneficial.  I will make sure that you know how to complete each task and the various configurations for those tasks.

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Reviews

4.5

3,556 ratings on Udemy

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By Sufiyan Nijamuddin Mujawar on 5/9/2026

Good practical lab provided

By Jignesh Gandevia on 4/19/2025

First and foremost - This course should not be called Mastering GPO as it is not an advance course. Should be renamed to GPO fundamentals for beginners. It covers the basics of GPO but does not cover topics such as loopback policy nor does it demonstrates application of multiple settings. Would have been also nice to include quizzes for each section. For troubleshooting could have included a real world scenario of conflicting GPOs settings. This course is good for beginners and if you want to have a quick review.

By Wendy Bettencourt on 11/5/2024

He made Group Policy so easy to understand. I've struggled for years trying to learn it my self by watching youtube and googling. The concepts were just not sticking. Keven Brown made it possible and everything clicked in my mind with his lectures and labs.

By Darrick Malone on 9/12/2023

The course kept my attention the whole time. Also, the instructor explains the lessons so easily that it keeps your attention. He explains the course as if you’re there in the same room. If I need any refreshing on group policies, this will be my course of choice. Great job!!!

By Wolfgang Heid on 9/26/2022

Kevin has a way of teaching that gives someone with no experience everything they need to succeed! At the same time, for someone that is well-seasoned like myself, he always gives me an "wow, I didn't know that" moment! I have taken some of his short courses and I am working through some of his longer ones and he always rates very highly!

By Ben Cook on 1/9/2021

This course is exactly what I needed to begin the process of reviewing existing group policy objects within my organization, troubleshoot policies that were not working as expected, and to create new policies to solve challenges in my organization. Very direct presentation of the material in a lab environment. Would love to hear more about best practices and expected outcomes from some of this material in a larger production environment.

By Simon Julius Bielecki on 12/10/2020

The first part of the course is a repetition of the AD course by the same tutor, which I personally found a bit disappointing as the same video material was presented here. After that, however, the functionality and use of the GPs was well discussed.

By Jason Freeland on 11/22/2020

The instructor speaks very clearly and really breaks down the steps. He is easy to follow and the course material is applicable to my work. Great job.

By Terrence Michael Healy on 11/8/2020

Clearly Defined

By Grigoriadis Dimitris on 11/8/2020

Clear voice for us, non English persons

By Adam Byers on 11/8/2020

Kevin makes things so understandable and his explanations are so simple. Great content and a great teacher!

By Uwe Hoevelborn on 10/26/2020

All Infos i need; Top!!!

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