Starter GPOs

Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and the Windows Server 2012 Group Policy Management Console provide a new feature of GPO management called starter GPOs. Starter GPOs are similar to regular GPOs, but they only contain settings available from administrative templates. Just as security templates can be used to import and export the configured settings within the security section of a policy, starter GPOs can be used to prepopulate configured settings in the Administrative Templates sections of the Computer Configuration and User Configuration nodes within a GPO. After the release of Windows Server 2008 and included in Windows Server 2012, Microsoft released a set of predefined starter GPOs for Windows Vista and Windows ...

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