Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Preference Settings
Group policies have two main setting nodes: the Computer node and User Configuration nodes. Each node contains two other nodes: the Policies and Preferences setting nodes. The Group Policy extensions presented in the Preferences node enable administrators to configure many default or initial configuration and environmental settings for users and computers. One really great feature of the GPO Preferences node is item-level targeting, which applies a certain preference (for instance, setting the Start menu on Windows 8 workstations to configure the power button to perform a logoff rather than a computer shutdown) to only defined users or groups within the item-level target definition of that GPO. When a user logs on to a workstation ...
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