1.1 Conceptual Overview
Group Policy provides the infrastructure to deliver and apply one or more desired configurations or policy settings to a set of targeted users and computers within a directory service environment. Policy settings are administrative directives that define computer-wide and user-specific setting configurations. Administrators can define policy settings once and rely on Windows to enforce that policy.
This section provides a conceptual overview of the major components and processes of the Group Policy protocols, which includes the following:
Group Policy core protocol, section 1.1.1
Group Policy settings, section 1.1.2
Group Policy Objects, section 1.1.3
Group Policy extensions, section 1.1.4
Group Policy data storage, section 1.1.5
Group Policy administration, section 1.1.6
Group Policy application, section 1.1.7
Group Policy SOM, section 1.1.8
Group Policy management, section 1.1.9
Group Policy structure, section 1.1.10
GPO configuration mode, section 1.1.11