Using a Starter GPO to build finalized GPOs

Now that we have a Starter GPO that contains some settings, I am going to pretend that I am the apprentice to the Group Policy administrator, and need to build my own GPO. There are a couple of different ways that I can invoke a new GPO that builds off of a Starter GPO. One way is to navigate to the Starter GPOs folder, find your Starter GPO, right-click on it, and select New GPO From Starter GPO...:

Alternatively, junior administrators can right-click on the main Group Policy Objects folder and select New just like they would with any other GPO. The first screen that is presented asks for a Name ...

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