What is Group policy and GPOs?
Group Policy settings are stored in a Group Policy Object (GPO). Group Policy is an Active Directory feature that provides the means for you to effectively and efficiently manage large numbers of computers. You can manage both user and computer configuration settings centrally. You can define group policies that affect a computer, irrespective of the particular user logging on to the computer. For instance, you can through a policy, configure the proxy server settings for a computer. You can define group policies that affect a user, irrespective of the computer which the user utilizes to log on to the system. For instance, you can use group policies to specify the applications or programs which are available to the user, and the programs which should exist on the user’s desktop You can define group policies as being a collection of user and computer configuration settings which you can link to computers, sites, domains and organizational units (OUs). Once linked, Group Policy defines t
