Group Policy Infrastructure White Paper
This was just released. It neatly wraps up a bunch of seperate Group Policy documents and sources into a single whitepaper. Very good reference.
Intended for system administrators, architects, and others who need to create and manage Group Policy settings, this paper explains Group Policy infrastructure and shows how the new Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) fits into this infrastructure. The paper includes detailed information about Group Policy processing as well as many best practices useful to the Group Policy administrator.
Introduced in Windows® 2000 Server, Group Policy provides directory-based desktop configuration management. With Group Policy, you can specify settings for registry-based policies, security, software installation, scripts, folder redirection, Remote Installation Services, and Internet Explorer maintenance. The Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems, extends Group Policy in a number of ways— through GPMC, which includes scripting interfaces, Group Policy Results, Group Policy Modeling, and more.
The Group Policy settings that you create are contained in a Group Policy object (GPO). By linking a GPO with selected Active Directory® service system containers—sites, domains, and organizational units—you can apply these settings to the users and computers in those Active Directory containers. To create GPOs, you use GPMC in conjunction with the Group Policy Object Editor, an MMC snap-in, also known previously as the Group Policy snap-in, Group Policy Object Editor, or GPedit.
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