Microsoft® Windows® Group Policy Guide

Using and Implementing Group Policy

Group Policy is so important to a successful Active Directory implementation that most administrators think of it as a component of Active Directory. This is mostly true—and it is okay to think of it this way—but you don’t necessarily need Active Directory to use Group Policy.

Using Group Policy in Workgroups and Domains

You can use Group Policy to manage workstations running Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional as well as servers running Windows 2000 and Windows Server™ 2003. While you can’t use Group Policy to manage Windows NT^® workstations or servers, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Millennium Edition (Me), or Windows XP Home Edition, you can use Group Policy in both enterprise (domain) and local ...