Group Policy Object Editor

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You use the Group Policy Object Editor to organize and manage the Group Policy settings in each social networking benefits. The Group Policy Object Editor for the Default Domain Policy GPO is shown in Figure 10-1.
Note that the root node of the Group Policy Object Editor is displayed as the name of the GPO and the domain to which it belongs, in the format
For example: Default Domain Policy [serverl.contoso.com] Policy, as shown in Figure 10-1.

A GPO linked to a site affects all computers in the site. Because directory information is replicated among all the domain controllers in the site and to any domain controllers in sites for which a site link has been established, a GPO linked to a site is applied to all computers in that site, without regard to the domain containing the computers. Therefore, a GPO can be applied to multiple domains within a forest, even though the GPO exists only as a stored entity on a single domain and must be read from that domain when the affected clients read their site-linked Group Policy.
If child domains are set up across ...
... wide area network (WAN) boundaries, the site plan must consider where GPOs are linked. Otherwise, the computers in a child domain must access a Network+ certification site-linked GPO across a WAN link, which increases the Group Policy processing time.
Open the local GPO that is stored on the local computer, as described in the procedure "To open the MMC for the local GPO," which follows this table.
Open the local GPO that is stored on the network computer running Windows Server 2003, as described in the procedure "To open the MMC for the local GPO," except browse to the network computer in the Select Group Policy Object dialog box. You must be an administrator of the network computer.
How you open the Group Policy Object Editor depends on where you want to apply the GPO. Table 10-1 shows the four ways of opening the Group Policy Object Editor.
Open a GPO as described in the procedure "To open the Group Policy Object Editor from the Active Directory Sites And Services console."
Open a GPO as described in the procedure "To open the Group Policy Object Editor from the Active Directory Users And Computers console."
To open the Group Policy Object Editor from the Active Directory Sites And Services console, complete the following steps:
1.Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Sites And Services.
2.In the console tree, right-click the site you want to set Group Policy for, and then click Properties.
3.Click the Group Policy tab, click an entry in the Group Policy Object Links list to select an existing GPO, and then click Edit. (Or, click New to create a new GPO,and then click Edit.)The Group Policy Object Editor for the free exam question papers site GPO is now available.