Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Security Handbook

The Security Configuration Tools

Several MMC snap-ins are grouped together and called the Security Configuration Tool Set. These snap-ins make it easy to perform many administrative tasks related to security. The Security Templates snap-in allows you to create security templates and save them in a text file. You can use the Security Configuration and Analysis snap-in to compare a system to a security template. There is also an extension to the Group Policy Editor. If you are more comfortable with a command-line version of these tools, you can use the SECEDIT command instead.

What Are Group Policies?

Windows 4.0 had the capability to configure many aspects of the user's environment. In Windows 2000 you can use group policy objects to exert a great ...