Managing Windows Environment – 1/28/2008
Monday night’s class dealt with Group Policy.
Group Policy is a way that you can create a list of rights, or policies, and force them on different groups in your domain. For example, you may wish to make sure your users all have Internet Explorer start from the company’s web page, or maybe you want to make sure that people in the Marketing department keep their My Documents folder on a specific file server and not on their local machines. Or whatever.
The cool new toy that Windows 2003 gives us over Windows 2000 is the Group Policy Management Console. What GPMC gives us over and above normal Server GP function is that Group Policy is now all under one roof. No longer do I have to go from Users & Computers and then to Sites & Services and then to Local Policy. It’s all right there! It’s really nice since I can also pull up a specific set of Group Policy (a GPO, or Group Policy Object) and see which sites, domains or OUs that particular GPO is linked to. Awesome.
Next week we’ll jump into Chapter Four, which covers managing users and groups.
Homework:
- Review Questions, Ch 3
