Windows® Group Policy Administrators Pocket Consultant

Chapter 2. Deploying Group Policy

• Keeping Group Policy Up to Date

• Applying and Linking Group Policy Objects

• Using Default Policies

• Using Policy Preferences and Settings

Group Policy provides a convenient and effective way to manage both preferences and settings for computers and users. With Group Policy, you can manage preferences and settings for thousands of users or computers in the same way that you manage preferences and settings for one computer or user—and without ever leaving your desk. To do this, you use one of several management tools to change a preference or setting to the value you want, and this change is applied throughout the network to the subset of computers and users you target.

Previously, making many of the administrative changes ...