Essentials of Group Policy - A comprehensive guide.
n the Active Directory environment, Group Policy is a feature of Windows that facilitates a wide variety of advanced settings that network administrators can use to control the working environment of users and computer accounts. Group policy and Active Directory (AD) go hand-in-hand. If an organization has an AD environment, then the group policy feature by default sets in. Group polices have one simple goal, which is to make the admins life easier. Group policies give admins a bird's-eye view of everything happening on the network and will be able to manage them, all from a single place.