Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-640): Configuring Windows Server® 2008 Active Directory® (2nd Edition)

Chapter 6. Implementing a Group Policy Infrastructure

In Chapter 1, you learned that Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) provides the foundational services of an identity and access solution for enterprise networks running Microsoft Windows, and that AD DS goes further to support the management and configuration of even the largest, most complex networks. Chapter 2; Chapter 3,; Chapter 4; and Chapter 5, focused on the administration of Active Directory directory service security principals: users, groups, and computers. Now you begin an examination of the management and configuration of users and computers by using Group Policy. Group Policy provides an infrastructure within which settings can be defined centrally and deployed to users and ...