Chapter 1. Group Policy Essentials
In this chapter, you'll get your feet wet with the concept that is Group Policy. You'll start to understand conceptually what Group Policy is and how it's created, applied, and modified, and you'll go through some practical examples to get at the basics.
The best news is that the essentials of Group Policy are the same in all versions of Windows 2000 onward. This includes server products (Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008) and all client versions of Windows including Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista.
Group Policy isn't really a server-driven technology. As you'll learn in depth a little later, the magic of Group Policy happens (mostly) on the target (client) machine, ...
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