Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Managing Computers with Domain Policies

Managing the configuration and settings of domain servers and workstations can be standardized using domain group policies. Domain group policies offer the advantage of taking user error and mistakes out of the loop by pushing out the configuration and security of computers from a single or a set of group policies. Of course, with this much control it is essential that group policies are tested to verify that the correct configuration and desired results are achieved with the policies before they are released to production systems. In the early days of Active Directory domain-based group policies, a few organizations, which will go unnamed in this book, found themselves locked out of their own computers ...