tailieunhanh - Windows Server 2008 and New Group Policy Settings

Group Policy puts an impressively powerful toolset into the hands of administrators working in the Active Directory environment. The Group Policy Object Editor (GPOE) acts much like a centralized, network-aware Registry editor: Make a setting, and Group Policy enforces it for you from that point forward. (Of course, Group Policy goes beyond Registry settings to include a variety of security and software installation capabilities, too.) | Global Knowledge Expert Reference Series ofWhite Papers Windows Server 2008 and New Group Policy Settings 1-800-COURSES Windows Server 2008 and New Group Policy Settings Glen Weadock Instructor and Course Developer MCSE MCSA A Introduction Group Policy puts an impressively powerful toolset into the hands of administrators working in the Active Directory environment. The Group Policy Object Editor GPOE acts much like a centralized network-aware Registry editor Make a setting and Group Policy enforces it for you from that point forward. Of course Group Policy goes beyond Registry settings to include a variety of security and software installation capabilities too. Group Policy is highly flexible. You can deploy different Group Policy settings based on Organizational Unit OU domain or site and with a little sleight of hand Windows group membership through a Group Policy technique called security group filtering. With the advent of Microsoft s Windows Server 2008 technologies - that is Windows Vista on the client and Server 2008 on the server side - comes a wealth of new and improved Group Policy settings approximately 700 in fact Some of these settings are in entirely new categories others are additional corrected or more convenient settings in existing categories. Some of the more interesting new categories include Network Access Protection Device installation control Removable storage restrictions Power management Printer driver installation delegation Hybrid hard disk Troubleshooting and diagnostics User Account Control Changes and additions to existing categories include IPsec and firewall AD-based printer deployment Taskbar and Start menu Shell visualization Synchronization scheduling Customized help resources Copyright 2007 Global Knowledge Training LLC. All rights reserved. 2 This paper takes an introductory look at the new categories but anyone moving to Windows Server 2008 technologies would do well to consider the changes and .