Windows® Group Policy Administrators Pocket Consultant

Chapter 3. Group Policy Management

• Understanding Resultant Set of Policy

• Managing Local Group Policies

• Managing Active Directory–Based Group Policy

• Delegating Privileges for Group Policy Management

• Managing Your GPOs in Production

• Managing Group Policy Preferences

The Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) is the primary tool you use to work with Group Policy. As discussed in Chapter 1, and detailed step by step in Appendix A, you need to install the GPMC before you can use it, and the installation technique you use depends on the operating system running on your computer. As also detailed step by step in Appendix A, you can extend Group Policy in a variety of ways. If a computer doesn’t already have Group Policy client-side extensions, you may be able ...