Commenting inside GPOs

As we have moved through Group Policy and taken a look at numerous screenshots, you may have noticed some comment fields. Primarily used inside the GPOs, these comments can prove to be invaluable to other administrators who are filling your shoes for a day. Commenting inside policies will also become useful to your future self when you find yourself opening up a policy 2, 3, or 10 years down the road and wondering why in the world you implemented those settings in the first place.

Let's take a look at the places where we can insert comments into GPOs. Launch the GPMC with me, and expand out the Group Policy Objects folder so that we can view all of the GPOs that we have created throughout this book. Then, Edit a GPO ...

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