Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Domain Group Policies

Domain group policies are very similar to local group policies, but many additional settings are included and these policies are managed and applied within an Active Directory environment. For clarification, documentation might refer to local policies as Local Group Policy Objects and group policies as domain-based policies. For the remainder of this chapter, they will be referred to as local policies and domain policies.

Local policies are very close to domain policies, but there are several key differences. Domain policies are managed using the Group Policy Management Editor, which allows administrators to view all available settings or to filter out only configured settings when managing a policy. Many settings that only ...