Logon as a Service/Batch Job at scale

Recently at a customer there was an issue with a GPO and a service that couldn’t start due to User Rights Assignments being configured wrong. They were using a GPO per server to define this, but using a GPO per server isn’t very scalable and friendly to manage. The solution? Group policy preferences! We start by creating a GPO and navigating to Computer Configuration -> Preferences -> Control Panel Settings -> Local Users and Computers....

April 10, 2024 · 2 min · 389 words · Michaël Vandenbulcke