Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 Central Store
As stated earlier in this chapter, each GPO in the Active Directory forest has a corresponding folder stored in the SYSVOL folder on each domain controller in the domain in which the GPO is created. If the domain controllers in the particular domain are running Windows Server 2003, each of these GPO folders contains a copy of each of the administrative templates loaded in that particular GPO, within the ADM subfolder. This legacy GPO storage scenario created many duplicated administrative template files and required additional storage space and increased replication traffic between domain controllers.
Starting with the new Group Policy infrastructure included with Windows Vista and Windows Server ...
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