10.1. Group Policy and the GPMC
Group Policy is a group of technologies that allows administrators within a domain to configure a setting one time and have it apply to multiple users or computers. Group Policy settings can be configured using the Local Computer Policy or using the Group Policy Management console (GPMC) in a domain.
As a comparison, Figure 10.1 shows the Local Computer Policy for a Windows 7 computer, and Figure 10.2 shows the Default Domain Policy for a domain. There are some important differences.
Figure 10.1. Local Computer Policy for a single computer
Figure 10.2. Default Domain Policy for the entire domain
First, the ...
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