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Mastering Windows Group Policy

You're reading from   Mastering Windows Group Policy Control and secure your Active Directory environment with Group Policy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789347395
Length 408 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jordan Krause Jordan Krause
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Preface 1. Group Policy - The Basics FREE CHAPTER 2. Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) 3. Daily Tasks in Group Policy 4. Advanced Filtering of Group Policy Objects 5. Deploying Policy Settings 6. Group Policy Preferences 7. Group Policy as a Security Mechanism 8. Group Policy Maintenance 9. Group Policy Troubleshooting 10. PowerShell for Group Policy Administration 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Denying access to Command Prompt

While I personally love Command Prompt and almost always have an instance of it open in order to launch administrative tools, in general it is true that Command Prompt is a security nightmare. If any user somehow stumbles their way into an elevated Command Prompt window, they can do literally anything inside the Windows operating system. So as a matter of security common sense, if there is not a legitimate need for Command Prompt to be used on workstations in your environment (and I very much doubt that there is), disable it! This is a quick and simple policy, but one that is almost always a great addition to a well-rounded security package:

User Configuration | Policies | Administrative Templates | System | Prevent access to the command prompt:

Set Prevent access to the command prompt to Enabled, that's it! CMD.EXE is now blocked wherever...

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