Chapter 12. Using Group Policies to Manage Software

Chapter 11, provided an overview of the basic features of, and how to deploy and manage, group policies in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. This chapter and the next chapter detail what you can actually do with group policies. This chapter discusses using group policies to manage software on client computers. Chapter 13, discusses several other ways that you can manage user desktops using group policies.

Managing software on client computers is one of the most important tasks that you will perform when managing a corporate network. The software installed on client computers includes the tools that users must have to get their work done. In many companies, a desktop computer will ...

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