Brian Phelps
NET260 W01
October 9, 2014

Activity one has us configure the essential security settings for group policy. Theses settings could be the Account Policies which can control Password Policy, Account Lockout, along with Kerberos. For the security you want to take into consider attion how much time you want to go by before haveing the user renew there password. I personally would set the minimum password age for atleast one day then the maximum 60 days. This way they would be forced to renew their password. I would also set the Enforce password history to ten since it would be roughly 1.5 years before the user could resuse a password. I would also change the Account lockout to 3 to give the user atleast three tries to login. The Keberos I might change or leave as is. I could see using this while intially configuring Acitive Directory and Group Policey or making changes to enhance security. …show more content…
Redirection may be used to store the users files on a network storage device. This would allow the user to have a local profile but direct the files to a network location. This is helpful incase the users computer failed they still have access to there files. You can have all Folders Redirected to the same location or specifying the location for a user. Folder Redirection can be used both on a Coorpreate and Company network along with on home networks as well. I can see using folder redirection on a small office network but not so much on a large scale network. Currently I was folder redirection set up on our desktop to store all user files on a seperate partition. By doing this i can just tell the backup software to back that partition up instead of having to located the