Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Creating New Group Policies

When changes need to be made or tested using group policies, the administrator should leave the production environment untouched and create test policies in isolated test lab environments. When test labs are not available or cannot replicate the production environment, the administrator can test policies in isolated organizational units within a domain. Also, if domain-based or site-based policies need to be created for testing, security filtering could be modified to apply the policy only to a specific set of test users or groups.

The preceding section described how to locate a group policy. Using the Group Policy Management Console, you can also create, configure, and open site, domain, and organizational unit (OU) ...