Chapter 29. Group Policy Overview

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

• Understanding Group Policy settings

• Blocking inheritance

• Enforcing GPOs

• Using loopback processing

• Running scripts with Group Policy

• Running PowerShell scripts via Group Policy

Understanding Group Policy Settings

Administrators use Group Policy to administer and manage users and computers within a domain. There are literally thousands of Group Policy settings. The goal isn’t to know them all, but instead to understand a few key Group Policy settings and how they’re created.

Figure 29-1 shows the Local Computer Policy. You can access this on Windows 7 by clicking Start, typing Policy in the Start Search text box, and selecting ...

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