Chapter 15. Group Policy Overview

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

• Launching the Group Policy Management Console

• Understanding Group Policy order of precedence

• Filtering GPOs by modifying permissions

• Understanding Group Policy settings

• Blocking inheritance

• Enforcing GPOs

• Using loopback processing

• Running scripts with Group Policy

Tip

You should be familiar with Group Policy objects when preparing for any of the MCITP exams.

Launching the Group Policy Management Console

The majority of the work with Group Policy starts with the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). Figure 15-1 shows the GPMC with the Default Domain Policy selected and the Default Domain Controllers Policy showing. ...

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