The Group Policy Management Console -- also known as the GPMC or Group Policy Management Editor -- is used to configure permissions and settings in Windows Server 2008. It is one of the easiest ways ...

With nearly 1,000 settings available in Windows Server 2003 Group Policy, troubleshooting is a burdensome and often frustrating experience for administrators. The most frequent problem—by far—for ...

In this post, we will see how to backup and restore Group Policy Objects and Settings in Windows 11/10 or Windows Server. To do this, you will need to download and install Group Policy Management ...

Group Policy enables businesses to control and configure computer and user settings in an Active Directory environment. Administrators can use Group Policy Management Console to make changes to ...

We analyze Microsoft’s Group Policy Object technology and check out its central administration tool, Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). Windows customers use Microsoft’s Group Policy Object ...

When Microsoft introduced group policy objects (GPOs) along with Windows Server 2000 nearly 17 years ago, they were an exciting new approach to managing user and system permissions. Today, they’re ...

One of the major Windows 2000 selling points for Microsoft has been Active Directory and its Group Policies. However, Microsoft didn’t offer any unified tool for managing the core aspects of Group ...

If you open the Group Policy Management Console, for example on a Windows Server 2008 machine or a pre-Service-Pack-1 Vista machine, you will see a new container in the navigation pane, titled ...

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Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Group policy is constantly evolving and has new functionality within Windows Server 2003. Here’s some basic training on what it can do. Any great general will tell you that there’s no specific recipe ...