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Security policies

Security policies

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Security policies

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- NTFS is fantastic security for your files and folders, but there's a lot of other stuff that happens on your computer where you'd like a little security. For example, what if you want everybody to have passwords that are at least 10 characters long? Or what if you have Bob who's way out in Denver and we don't want him walking up to this machine when he's here in town and logging in, but from Denver, we want him to be able to log in? So, log in remotely versus logging in locally. There's lots of little security stuff that Windows takes care of via what we call our security policies. Now we're going to be setting up policies for just this computer, so we call it a Local Security Policy. So let me show you how this all works. (keyboard keys clicking) So, Local Security Policy is an application that we run. Let me center it 'cause I like it in the center. Now, what you have here is a whole big pile of things you can…

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