6.7. Delegating Group Policy Administration

Similarly to how delegation is used in other parts of their network infrastructure, administrators can use delegation with Group Policy to relieve the burden of a large number of everyday tasks involving deploying and implementing Group Policy. With Windows Server 2008, administrators can delegate many Group Policy tasks as defined in the Microsoft Group Policy deployment guidelines, including the following:

  • Managing GPOs

  • Managing GPO links

  • Performing tasks on GPOs

  • Creating GPOs

  • Creating and editing WMI filters

As with all delegation, you need to exercise extreme caution. Putting too much authority into the hands of one user or a group of users can have serious ramifications if the proper due diligence ...

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