Every Microsoft Windows operating system (starting with Windows XP) has a grouping of configuration settings that is accessed and structured in a similar way. These configuration settings can be used and tweaked to manage and manipulate the workstation or server to your heart's content. This locally-stored conglomeration of settings that exists individually on each machine is known as Local Group Policy, or sometimes simply Local Policy. These local settings could certainly be used on a machine-by-machine basis to administer your entire workforce, but there is nothing centralized about it. You would be talking about massive man-hours to accomplish all of these changes.
If you're sitting in front of a Windows computer right ...
