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Using PowerShell to manage specific rules - PowerShell Tutorial
From the course: PowerShell for Security Professionals
Using PowerShell to manage specific rules
Hey, everybody, welcome back to the PowerShell for Security Professionals course. In this lesson, I'm going to be going over Active Directory, as well as group policy, and we're going to take a look at some of the pre-written commandlets that you can use in your scripts in order to manage groups easier and work with Active Directory a lot easier as well. So, the group policy set of commandlets are really important for basically managing any sort of group policies across your entire organization. Let's say there's a scenario in which, as a defender, somebody compromises a set of accounts. You can quickly write up a script to kind of move those accounts into a group or create a new group policy, or maybe generate a report on that set of users. The the list of possibilities is pretty endless. If you take a look at Microsoft's documentation, they have a lot of pre-written group policy related commandlets. And I highly recommend you take a look at these to understand what group policy…
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