Mastering Windows Server 2019 - Second Edition

Creating and linking a new GPO

If the best practice in general is to build a new GPO when we need to apply some settings, we'd better take a minute and cover that process. For this example, we are going to create a new GPO that plugs a list of trusted sites into Internet Explorer on our desktop computers. If you run a web application in your network that needs to run JavaScript or ActiveX controls, or something like that, it may be required that the website is part of the trusted sites list inside Internet Explorer in order for it to run properly. You could print off an instructions page for the helpdesk on how to do this on each computer, and have them spend the time doing it for every user who calls in because they cannot access the application. ...