Summary

In this chapter, we looked at how Group Policy is used in local and Active Directory environments, how you can link GPOs at different levels in the Active Directory hierarchy, and how you can use security group and WMI filtering to further control which computers and users get which policy.

We also looked at some of the new Group Policy management features introduced in Windows Server 2008, including Starter GPOs, comments, and filtering. We looked at some of the new policy areas introduced in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 specifically related to security, such as device restrictions for controlling removable storage use, the unified Windows Firewall, and IPsec configuration policies and wired and wireless policies.

Finally, we looked ...

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