Overview of Group Policy

Components of Group Policy

Group Policy settings are configured Settings, enabling administrators to perform By changing the settings of the computer –specific Registry settings and user-specific domainbased Computer. You can be compiled Group Policy settings that GPO, which then, you can apply to users or computers.

GPOs

GPO is an object that contains one or more appropriate policy configuration settings for a user, computer, or both settings. GPO Templates are stored in SYSVOL and the GPO DS storage container object in AD. The GPO by using the Group Policy Management to manage Console (GPMC). In GPMC, you can open and edit the GPO by using Group Policy Management Editor. GPO is logically linked with the settings to Active Directory container the container object.

Group Policy Settings

Group Policy settings the most delicate part A Group Policy setting Group Policy. It refers to a particular Changes to the configuration object in Active Directory domain (or computer user, or both) Services (AD DS). Group Policy has thousands of configuration settings. The settings can affect almost each area of ​​the computing environment. Not all settings apply to all older versions of Windows Server and Windows operating systems. Each new release introduces new features and settings It applies only to the specific version. If the settings of the computer group policy application, it cannot Process, it just ignores it. 

Most policy setting has three states: 

• Not Configured. The GPO will not change the existing configuration settings specific User or computer. 

• Enabled. The policy settings are applied. 

• Disabled. The policy setting specifically reversed. By default, most of the settings are set to not configure.