3.1. Updated GPMC Filters

How many individual Group Policy settings are there? Lots. There are now more than 2,400 with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Sometimes it feels like you're trying to find a needle in a haystack.

Until now, the best way to discover particular policy settings was to consult a special Microsoft Excel spreadsheet listing all of the Group Policy settings. Since it was just a simple Excel spreadsheet, you could do a quick Find for what you were looking for, say, entries related to the Control Panel. But now, things are better.

We'll discuss more about the downloadable spreadsheet in Chapter 7, so stay tuned. You might ...

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