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Figure 27-14 Local Security Policy

Local policies work great for individual systems, but they can be a pain to

configure if you want to apply the same settings to more than one PC on your

network. If you want to apply policy settings en masse, you need to step up to

features of domain-based Windows Active Directory, like you read about in

Chapter 19, “Local Area Networking.” You can use organizational units

(OUs) that organize users and devices logically into a folder-like hierarchy,

and then exercise deity-like (Microsoft prefers the term granular) control to

apply a different group policy to the network clients in each unit. Let me

explain group policy a little more.

EXAM TIP Group policy changes may not immediately apply to all

systems. Windows will fetch the group policy when the system boots or

someone logs in. It will also refresh the policy from time to time while

running, though some policy changes won’t apply without a reboot anyways.

You can run gpupdate /force from the command line to update group policy

for a specific computer immediately.

Want to set the default wallpaper for every PC in your domain? Group

policy can do that. Want to make certain tools inaccessible to everyone but

authorized users? Group policy can do that, too. Want to control access to the

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