Local Group Policy is great and is a wonderful way to test new settings and to poke around and find out what kind of restrictions you can put into place on your workstations, but running the Local Group Policy Editor on every workstation in your environment and configuring all of the same settings sounds like an administrative nightmare. How do we overcome the centralized administration challenge? This is where we up-shift and start talking about Active Directory Group Policy.
Active Directory Group Policy takes all of these local policy settings and makes them available anywhere inside your domain. The interface for editing policies and settings is almost exactly the same as the local policy editor, but an additional ...