Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Viewing Policies with the Group Policy Management Console

You can view Active Directory-based group policies with very little effort by using a single console, the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). This tool is a feature that can installed on any Windows Server 2012 system using Server Manager. The GPMC enables administrators to view group policies, edit group policies, and model the effects of combinations of group policies (that is, model the resulting configuration).

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Local group policy or security policy changes are made using the Group Policy Object Editor, an MMC snap-in, available on every Windows Server 2012, and the Local Security Policy console, available under the Tools menu in Server Manager.

To open an existing policy, ...