MCTS Windows Server® 2008 R2 Complete: Study Guide

Managing Group Policy

Now that you have implemented GPOs and applied them to sites, domains, and OUs within Active Directory, it’s time to look at some ways to manage them. In the following sections, you’ll look at how multiple GPOs can interact with one another and ways you can provide security for GPO management. These features are a very important part of working with Active Directory, and if you properly plan Group Policy, you can greatly reduce the time the help desk spends troubleshooting common problems.

Managing GPOs

One of the benefits of GPOs is that they’re modular and can apply to many different objects and levels within Active Directory. This can also be one of the drawbacks of GPOs if they’re not managed properly. A common administrative ...