These sections are further divided into the different types of policies that can be set, such as Administrative Templates, Security, and Folder Redirection. User Configuration Holds settings that are applied to users (at sign-in and during periodic background refresh),Ĭomputer Configuration Holds settings that are applied to computers (at startup and during periodic background refresh). Local Group Policy Editor consists of two main sections: These GPOs can then be linked to sites, domains, and organizational units (OU) that contain computer or user objects.
The Local Group Policy Editor provides administrators with a hierarchical tree structure for configuring Group Policy settings in GPOs. Local Group Policy Editor is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that is used to configure and modify Group Policy settings within Group Policy Objects (GPOs).Īdministrators need to be able to quickly modify Group Policy settings for multiple users and computers throughout a network environment.
