Planning Workgroup and Standalone Local Group Policy Configuration

Many organizations deploy Windows servers and workstations in workgroup configurations and for these organizations, local group policies can play a vital role in simplifying Windows system administration. Some of the benefits of leveraging local group policies in workgroup deployments include the following:

Standardizing workgroup and image deployments—Define the base local computer, Administrators, and Non-Administrators local policies on a machine that will be used as a template for a desktop or server image to reduce security exposure, improve standardization, and reduce user error when many systems are deployed.

Standardizing User Configuration settings—The User Configuration ...

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