Chapter 6

Managing Applications and Settings Using Group Policy

Let’s take a step back, go to the 20-yard line, and remember why we’re getting jazzed up about Group Policy in the first place.

You’re jazzed up because you’re starting to realize the potential that Group Policy can bring: dictating settings for your operating system and making your world more “standardized.”

As you poke around the Group Policy editor, you’ll see there are lots of areas that we’ve already explored and some we haven’t. You’ve had a chance to handle the Administrative Templates section within policies. You’ve examined the Group Policy Preferences. In the next chapter you’ll learn about the items in the “Security” section.

But let’s take some time to focus on an important ...

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