Planning Domain Group Policy Objects

Group Policy objects (GPOs) can be used to perform many functions across a diverse or standard computer and network infrastructure built on Microsoft Windows and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Considering how to best utilize group policies to manage any one particular environment and deciding on which GPO settings to leverage can be a lengthy process. To simplify this process and to keep from rethinking GPO usage each time, a base set of GPOs should be created and stored as starter GPOs.

A starter GPO is a feature of the Group Policy infrastructure that first became available with the release of the Windows Server 2008 Group Policy Management Console. A starter GPO can contain a set of Group Policy ...

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