The Best Damn Windows Server 2003 Book Period- P62:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the Web Edition, the Standard Edition, the Enterprise Edition, and the Datacenter Edition.:The latest incarnation of Microsoft’s server product,Windows Server 2003, brings many new features and improvements that make the network administrator’s job chapter will briefly summarize what’s new in 2003 and introduce you to the four members of the Windows Server 2003 family: the. | 576 Chapter 17 Working with Group Policy in an Active Directory Environment Implementing Group Policy Now that you know how to evaluate the effects of group policy on the directory it is time to start creating policy objects and applying policy to the environment. In this section you will learn about the different places where you can create GPOs and the tools to modify and manage them. The Group Policy Object Editor MMC The Group Policy Object Editor is a snap-in for the MMC. Because group policy can be applied at several locations opening the Group Policy Object Editor can differ depending on where you want to apply group policy. From within an MMC you can select the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in from the Add Remove Snap-in window. When selecting the Group Policy Object Editor from the list of stand-alone snap-ins the Group Policy Wizard will open allowing you to select the scope of the group policy to work with. Clicking the Browse button in this wizard will open the Browse for a Group Policy Object window shown in Figure first three tabs in the window allow you to search for GPOs of a specific type Domain OU Site and fourth tab selected in Figure displays a list of all policy objects in the domain regardless of location. Local computer policy objects will not show in this listing because they are stored on the computer not in the domain. Figure Viewing all Group Policy Objects in the Domain To edit one of the existing GPOs stored in Active Directory select the GPO from one of the tabs and click OK. This will take you back to the Group Policy Wizard. When you click Finish in the wizard the Group Policy Object Editor will open in the MMC and you can begin editing the GPO. Creating Configuring and Managing GPOs Loading the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in in an MMC will allow you to edit existing policies in the network. When the domain is first created there are three default policies created Working with Group Policy in
