Understanding Group Policy

This section discusses various concepts and terminology related to Group Policy to provide system administrators with the information required to understand, support, and deploy group policies in an Active Directory forest. As a follow-up to this chapter, Chapter 27, “Group Policy Management for Network Clients,” provides useful best-practice examples of how Group Policy can be deployed to simplify the management and configuration of your Active Directory servers, workstations, and users. Although some administrators might be inclined to skip the remainder of this chapter and jump right to Chapter 27, it is highly recommended that you review this chapter to understand how to manage the Group Policy infrastructure before ...

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