Microsoft® Windows® Desktop Deployment Resource Kit

AutoProf Policy Maker

Group Policy doesn’t do everything that every IT professional needs it to do. In fact, even Microsoft folks will admit that there are holes in the coverage that Group Policy provides. That’s why Microsoft made Group Policy extensible. To date, however, very few companies have stepped forward and extended Group Policy with useful tools that help you better manage users and computers.

Policy Maker from AutoProf (http://www.autoprof.com) is a new product that fills this void. If you’ve ever wished that your GPOs could do more, I recommend that you evaluate Policy Maker, shown in Figure 20-2. It seamlessly adds new features to every GPO you create, such as:

• Network drive mappings. You can assign network drives. For example, you ...