Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Managing Users with Local Security and Group Policies

Windows Server 2012 systems provide local security policies to manage user and group administrative access on a per-server basis. Within Active Directory, you can use group policies to set configurations and security on a specified collection of computers, users, or groups of users from a single policy. These policies can be used to deliver standard desktop configurations and security settings for server access and application functionality. Also, policies can set user configurations to deliver software on demand, redirect desktop folders, plus affect many more settings. Many settings within each policy explain what the setting controls and whether computer-based settings apply based on the ...