Mastering Active Directory

Group policies

We cannot think of an Active Directory without group policies. Using group policies, we can apply rules to manage application settings, security settings, and system settings of Active Directory objects. Each and every object in Active Directory has different operation and security requirements. As an example, sales computer security requirements are different from a server that hosts the database system. Group policies can be bound to the organizational units. Therefore, objects that have different Group Policy requirements can be placed into different OUs with relevant policy settings added. Even though this is the most common reason for OUs, this is where things mostly go wrong as well. If you do not consider Group Policy ...