Mastering Windows Group Policy

Editing settings inside a GPO

Changing or introducing settings into a GPO is quite simple. As with everything related to Group Policy, you start inside GPMC. Once opened, expand the trees on the left-hand side until you find the GPO that you want to modify. It is generally easiest to find a particular GPO by expanding the Group Policy Objects folder, as they will all be listed there.

Now right-click on the GPO that you want to modify, and choose Edit...:

This launches a familiar-looking console, the Group Policy Management Editor. This should remind you of the console presented when we first launched gpedit.msc in order to see the underlying ...