Chapter 9. Managing Group Policies

In chapter 8 you saw how to create Group Policy Objects (GPOs). In this chapter you’ll learn how to apply them to your environment to centrally manage user and computer configurations.

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This chapter follows directly from chapter 8. If there’s a time gap between your reading the two chapters, review chapter 8 before starting this chapter.

In the first section of this chapter you’ll learn how to link GPOs to AD sites, domains, and OUs. No one can ever remember which GPOs are linked where, so you’ll then learn how to discover the linkages. GPOs need to be removed once they’re no longer required. You can modify the way GPOs are processed by modifying the inheritance rules.

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