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General Group Policy Issues

• What is Group Policy? Group Policy is a technology that supports centralized (one to many) management of machines and users in an Active Directory environment. For general information about Group Policy as a technology, see here.
• Fine, but give me the quick version. OK, if you insist! a) Install GPMC b) put policy settings in Group Policy Objects (GPOs) b) link the GPOs to Active Directory sites, domains or OUs. Your done - targeted machines and users will now be configured according to the policy settings you used. Oh, and there are 1,300 policy settings just for registry-based policy alone. It's a rich technology!
• How can I get started? Aside from the introductory information available here, the Group Policy Common Scenarios Package provides both documentation and Group Policy Objects (GPOs) that implement common uses of Group Policy. This is a great eductation tool but also a cool "launching point" for those looking to use Group Policy for the first time.
• Where can I get a list of all policy settings? Administrative Templates (Registry-Based) and Security Policy settings are documented in the Group Policy Reference Spreadsheet.

Administrative Templates

• I receive "The following entry in the [strings] section is too long and has been truncated" errors when I run GPEdit. Please refer to KB 842933 for more information on this error.
• Where do I locate the latest ADM files? The latest and historical ADM files are available here.
• I created an ADM Template and can see the Category, but not the Policy in GPMC? By default, only "true" policies are displayed. On a Windows 2000 workstation, select
  "Administrative Templates" in the left panel, then unclick "View/Show Policies Only". On XP go to "View/Filtering" and uncheck "Only show policy settings that can be fully managed". Unfortunately, XP doesn't  remember the setting between sessions.
  

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