7.3. Creating and Editing GPOs in a Mixed Environment
As I noted in Chapter 1, Windows XP and Windows 2003 have about 200 more policy settings available to them than their Windows 2000 pals do. And Windows Vista has about 700 more policy settings than Windows XP.
The good news (as I've previously stated) is that Windows 2000 clients ignore policy settings meant for Windows XP or Windows 2003. And Windows XP clients ignore policy settings meant for Windows Vista. This makes sense: older clients don't have the "moving parts" required to do anything if these policy settings are set.
You're likely to have a mix of client and server systems. It's likely you'll have the following systems:
Domain Controllers: Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and/or ...
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