Chapter 6. Group Policy Changes

In This Chapter

  • Application Deployment Editor.

  • Group Policy Management Console.

  • Resultant Set of Policy.

  • Software Restriction Policies.

What's New

Microsoft introduced Group Policy in Windows 2000. Group Policy is a mechanism for administration of computers in Active Directory domains. Group policies allow administrators to specify settings for everything from user environment configuration to software distribution to password policies. The basics of Group Policy have not changed with Windows Server 2003. However, several enhancements make the management and implementation of group policies easier. The existing Group Policy MMC snap-in has been redesigned and two new management consoles have been introduced (Resultant ...

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