Introduction to Group Policy
The Active Directory has many features and facets, including Kerberos authentication, multimaster replication, and transitive trusts. The most visible feature of the AD, however, is the functionality provided by group policy. Group policy provides the capability to give the user a consistent desktop experience no matter where he logs in. Group policy can be used to set mundane features, such as whether the user gets the Run command; it also can be used to enforce arcane features, such as the Kerberos ticket lifetime. Virtually anything can be set by group policy. Although literally hundreds of predefined settings exist in the AD, group policy—like many other facets of the Active Directory—is fully extensible. You ...
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