Group Policy applies numerous security settings, including password complexity, folder and registry permissions, authentication protocols and communication encryption.
Configuring the user environment using Group Policy (GPO)
Group Policy can configure many aspects of the user environment in bulk, such as folder redirection, running scripts and deploying corporate software.
Group Policy Reporting and Modeling
Planning new Group Policies or troubleshooting existing ones can be difficult in a complex corporate network and restriction structure. Two tools simplify this work: Group Policy Reporting and Group Policy Modeling and they are available in the administration console Group Policy Management
What is Group Policy?
Group Policy manages permissions and settings in bulk for computers and signed-in users. Collections of settings, called Group Policy Objects (GPOs), change specific computer or user behaviours. Linking GPOs to organisational units (OUs) in AD applies them only to selected computers or users. Changing one GPO can therefore manage potentially thousands of computers or users.