CHAPTER 7Group Policy

For many organizations, Group Policy is the key technology they utilize to lock down their environments. Composed of thousands of different policy settings and dozens of categories of preference items, a thorough knowledge of what Group Policy can do and how to configure, optimize and maintain its operations is an essential part of the administrator’s job.

Previous enhancements to Group Policy

Group Policy received a lot of new functionalities in Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8. Some of the more important enhancements included:

Image Remote Group Policy update Windows Server 2012 enabled the use of the Group Policy Management ...

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