Planning a Group Policy Strategy

Through the use of Group Policy settings, systems administrators can control many different aspects of their network environment. As you’ll see throughout this chapter, system administrators can use GPOs to configure user settings and computer configurations. Windows Server 2008 R2 includes many different administrative tools for performing these tasks. However, it’s important to keep in mind that, as with many aspects of using Active Directory, a successful Group Policy strategy involves planning.

Because there are hundreds of possible GPO settings and many different ways in which you can implement them, you would start by determining the business and technical needs of your organization. For instance, you would ...

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