Group Policy Improvements in Vista - Final Thoughts
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You've reached the end of this article. By now you should know about the most important changes, additions and new features that Vista brought in terms of centralized management and configuration. Group Policies are quite easily understandable, but also a powerful part of the Active Directory environment.
System administrators all over the world rely on group policies in their endeavors, because working with them is quite easy once you understand the basics regarding GPOs and know where to find what you really need (e.g. options). In the real world, a company's infrastructure is almost always already designed, so your task is just to add finishing touches and apply modifications here and there.
It is definitely worthwhile when a major migration takes place, such as changing your Windows Server Operating Systems from 2003 to 2008, and the FSMO roles are transferred onto the new Active Directory domain controller, to look in the changelogs to get the most out of the new functionalities and improvements. The same applies to the new Vista's (and Windows 2008 Server) Group Policy.
The beauty of group policies is that they offer a centralized solution that comes "right out of box" since it integrates seamlessly into the Active Directory. Therefore, we can just set the necessary settings and work on the templates. Ultimately, it comes down to the system administrators to look into the issues and find out what's going on.
Windows Vista features over 800 totally new policy settings. Imagine what the chances are that what you need is already supported and can be enabled and/or configured with just a few clicks! For example, speaking from personal experience, some of our earlier workarounds weren't necessary anymore because native support was added.
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