Chapter 5

Group Policy Preferences

Take a look at Figure 5-1. You’ll see the Preferences node in the Group Policy editor.

Figure 5-1: Welcome to the Preferences node in the Group Policy editor.

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You might be thinking to yourself, “Preferences? What’s a preference? I thought this whole book was on Group Policy, so why is there a node called Preferences?”

And others might be thinking, “I’ve been using Group Policy for a long time and heard about the Preferences, but I never really dove into it. What do I download to start using them?”

The good news is: you likely have everything you need to get started with them.

Recall that a Client-Side Extension ...

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