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Global Catalog (GC)

A portion of the Active Directory that contains a subset of information about all of the objects within all domains of the Active Directory data store. The Global Catalog is used to improve performance of authentications and for sharing information between domains.

Global group

An Active Directory security group that contains accounts only from its own domain.

gpresult.exe

A command-line interface for RSoP. See also Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP).

Group object

Logical collection of users that is used primarily for assigning security permissions to resources.

Group Policy

Settings that can affect the behavior of, and the functionality available to, users and computers. Group policies allow system administrators ...

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