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Troubleshoot local and domain group policies

Troubleshoot local and domain group policies

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Troubleshoot local and domain group policies

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- [Instructor] Group policies let you apply rules to groups of users and computers so that you don't have to manage them all separately. There are thousands of options and settings with perhaps millions of total configurations. If you don't plan well or you apply too many policies or take control over someone else's network they could start to overlap and even contradict each other. Once problems occur, it's difficult to pin down where the issues started. One place to begin the troubleshooting process is to open the local group policy editor and take a look around. You can do that by typing Gpedit and opening edit group policy. I've set up a troubleshooting example. Let's go through it. Let's say a user says they can't save files to OneDrive and you've ruled out the most likely causes. Now you need to check to see if any policies have been applied that could be the cause of the problem. If policies have been…

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