He opened Command Prompt as Administrator and typed his first command:
Alex opened an elevated command prompt on a remote machine using PowerShell remoting and typed: group policy editor cmd
secedit /configure /db C:\Windows\security\local.sdb /cfg C:\newpolicy.inf Twenty minutes after the ransomware alert, Alex sat back. He had touched exactly three graphical windows. Everything else was typed into a black terminal window. The finance department was clean. He opened Command Prompt as Administrator and typed
To fix it, he didn't RDP into the machine. He used: The finance department was clean
Alex was a senior system administrator for a mid-sized logistics company. For years, he had done everything the "graphical way." To manage user restrictions or deploy software, he would open the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) , right-click, scroll through dropdown menus, and click "OK." It worked, but it was slow.
But his real challenge was the finance department. They were remote, not on the VPN. How do you update Group Policy for a laptop that can't see the Domain Controller?
Instead of navigating through gpedit.msc and digging through "Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Removable Storage Access," he typed: