Logon Scripts, Group Policy Preferences, and Server 2003 End Of Life: Part 2

In this post I’ll cover some of what you can do with group policy preferences. In the next post I’ll talk about how you can target these settings on the basis of computer or user properties.

If you haven’t already, it’s worth having a quick look at what options are available in the Group Policy Preferences section of a GPO hosted of a Windows Server 2012 R2 functional level domain controller.

You can use Group Policy Preferences to configure the following:

Some of these settings can be configured through Group Policy. When configuring settings, you decide whether you want to apply a setting so that the user cannot change it, or configure a setting so that the user can change it. For example, setting a default browser home page while allowing the user the option of altering that default setting.

While being able to configure all these settings is cool, it’s the targeting options that allow you to get very specific about which groups of users or computers the settings apply to.