The configuration-management system every Windows shop lives on, explained for the Linux admin: GPOs and how they are processed (LSDOU and precedence), computer versus user policy, security baselines and ADMX administrative templates, loopback processing, mapped drives and login scripts, WMI filtering, and troubleshooting with gpresult and the Resultant Set of Policy. The good, the bad, the sprawl, and where it overlaps with modern Intune/MDM.
Intune
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Group Policy in Practice