Understanding Group Policies
Put simply, group policies are settings that control how Windows works. You can use them to customize the Windows 8 interface, restrict access to certain areas, specify security settings, and much more.
Group policies are mostly used by system administrators who want to make sure that novice users don’t have access to dangerous tools (such as the Registry Editor) or who want to ensure a consistent computing experience across multiple machines. Group policies are also ideally suited to situations in which multiple users share a single computer. However, group policies can be useful on single-user standalone machines, as you see in various sections of this book.
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