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Microsoft® Windows® Group Policy Guide
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Microsoft® Windows® Group Policy Guide

by The Microsoft Group Policy Team, Darren Mar-Elia, Derek Melber, William R. Stanek
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
24h 32m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 13. Group Policy Structure and Processing

To understand the structure of Group Policy, you first need to understand the structure of Active Directory®. Active Directory has both physical and logical components. The heart of Active Directory’s physical architecture is an extensible storage engine (ESE) for reading and writing information to the Active Directory data store. The ESE uses an object-based hierarchy to represent information in the data store. The data store is essentially a database with a primary data file, working files ...

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