July 2007
Intermediate to advanced
669 pages
16h 40m
English
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Windows® 7 Desktop Support and Administration: Real World Skills for MCITP Certification and Beyond
by Darril Gibson
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Chapter 10. Managing Windows 7 with Group Policy
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER INCLUDE
Group Policy and the GPMC
Group Policy settings
Group Policy is one of the primary tools you have available to manage users and computers within a domain. It doesn't matter how many users or computers you have, you can manage all of them with a single Group Policy object (GPO).
When learning about Group Policy, it's important to understand how different GPOs are applied. A GPO can be linked to a site, domain, or OU, and where it's linked determines its scope. When multiple GPOs are applied, the settings are merged. To determine what settings apply, you need to understand the order of precedence with multiple GPOs. Because there are too many GPO settings to ...