5.5. Final Thoughts

In this chapter, you learned ways to utilize Group Policy in some interesting cases.

WMI filters are great; just be careful when you use them. They do take a little while to process on each machine, so be careful in the number of WMI filters you're asking your machines to process.

Loopback processing is great too; its job is to help you ensure that the same set of user settings affects a machine. It can be confusing to understand and use at first, so be sure to really test this out in a test lab before running it in your production environment.

If you have cross-forest trusts, consider what happens over the trust. You can decide if you want to revert back to "standard" behavior (that is, you can retrain the system to allow ...

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