Active Directory® for Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Technical Reference

Chapter 13. Using Group Policies to Manage Computers

Chapter 12, described one of the ways you can use group policies in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory directory service to manage your network—using group policies to manage the software that gets installed on the workstations on your network. Using a centralized tool to manage client software provides a significant benefit for an organization. However, there are also many other concerns around managing client computers, including securing desktop computers, managing user profiles and data, and locking down user desktops to reduce the number of changes the users can make to their computers. This chapter explains how you can also use group policies to manage just about every other ...