Chapter 7

Chapter 7 dealt with group policy. According to the book, group policy is a method of controlling settings across an AD network.GP has benefits in the cost of a network to an organization, in that it streamlines networks and user accounts on a network, and thus reduces the total cost of ownership, one of the two prime financial measures of cost effectiveness for a computer network in a corporation. An object called the Group Policy Container is created when the AD domain services role is installed in the MMC and contains policy information and settings. The MMC has a snap-in called the Group Policy Management Editor that is used to create group policies and their settings, which are divided into two categories; computer configuration and user configurations.