Mastering Microsoft Windows Server® 2008 R2

Chapter 8. Group Policy: AD's Gauntlet

When you talk about Active Directory, you must also talk about Group Policy. Group Policy is not a new technology for Active Directory, but it has grown and improved with every iteration of the operating system and service pack since it was first introduced in Windows 2000. The Group Policy technology and features that are delivered with Windows Server 2008 make such drastic improvements over the previous version that it can almost seem like new technology. Changes and enhancements have come for managing Group Policy (the Group Policy Management console and the Group Policy Management Editor), managing available settings (with now more than 5,000 settings), controlling targeting objects, and troubleshooting ...