5.4. Group Policy
The power of Group Policy lies in how it allows you to create a single setting but have it apply to many users and computers. If you're working in a domain environment, you can have hundreds or thousands of users and computers. By creating and linking Group Policy objects (GPOs), you can easily manage all of the users and computers.
If you want everyone in your domain to set their home page to your company's intranet home page, you can go to each individual computer and set it (and hope users don't change it), or you can set it once using Group Policy. By creating a single GPO and linking it to the domain, you cause this setting to be applied to all users in the domain.
By default, two group policies exist in a domain:
The ...
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