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Overview of Group Policy

Overview of Group Policy - Windows Tutorial

From the course: Windows 10: Security

Overview of Group Policy

- [Instructor] In this section, we're going to talk about using Group Policy to administer windows 10. Group Policy is a technology that allows us to configure thousands of user and computer settings. Group Policy can be applied at the domain level or a local Group Policy. If you're running on a domain, that's probably the preferred place to do your Group Policy. If you have one or more Windows 10 computers not connected to a domain, then you could use local Group Policy to accomplish largely the same thing. Be aware that domain settings can override local settings. So if you create a policy at the domain level that has a setting, and you create a policy at the local level that has the opposite of that setting, then the domain setting will take precedence. So typically we don't manipulate the same setting at both the domain level and the local level. If you want to make a setting, just do it in one place or the other…

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