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I purchased a nice resource book last week (Using Windows XP, Platinum Edition) for pretty much the sole purpose of learning more about Group Policy, and this book had the most text available on the topic.
I'm off to a good start, and I can assign local policy, but what the book doesn't tell me (or at least it doesn't come right out and tell me directly) is how to assign local policy to a security template so that I can distribute the policy across Active Directory. It skips right to Security Templates and says "Policy can be applied in these templates." Per the book's instructions, I've dabbled in gpedit.msc and mmc and have yet to see anything that looks correct.
An excerpt: "Computer Configuration applies policy locally. User Configuration applies policy to ALL users on Active Directory."
Hence, I realize I can go to each computer and edit Computer Configuration individually, but how can I utilize Active Directory (Windows Server 2003) to make policy apply to a specific group? I see no option tabs in the group for which I wish to apply the policy.
Thanks in advance.
I'm off to a good start, and I can assign local policy, but what the book doesn't tell me (or at least it doesn't come right out and tell me directly) is how to assign local policy to a security template so that I can distribute the policy across Active Directory. It skips right to Security Templates and says "Policy can be applied in these templates." Per the book's instructions, I've dabbled in gpedit.msc and mmc and have yet to see anything that looks correct.
An excerpt: "Computer Configuration applies policy locally. User Configuration applies policy to ALL users on Active Directory."
Hence, I realize I can go to each computer and edit Computer Configuration individually, but how can I utilize Active Directory (Windows Server 2003) to make policy apply to a specific group? I see no option tabs in the group for which I wish to apply the policy.
Thanks in advance.