Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Summary

This chapter detailed the Group Policy infrastructure of the Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 OSs. For an administrator to successfully design and support a Group Policy infrastructure, a thorough understanding of the general GPO functions and how to use the GPO Management Tools is a necessity.

This chapter introduced how policies work, the difference between local group policies and domain policies, and the elements of a group policy. For administrators who are creating multiple policies for their environment, rather than creating individual policies for each user, site, or domain, the concept of creating a starter GPO to use as a template or baseline policy was discussed.

Windows Server 2012 also introduced improvements in the Group ...