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Overview of Group Policy

Overview of Group Policy - Windows Tutorial

From the course: Windows 11: Administration

Overview of Group Policy

- [Instructor] In this section, we're going to talk about using group policy to administer Windows 11. Group policy is a technology that allows us to configure thousands of user and computer settings. Group policy can be applied at the domain level or at the local level. If you're running on a domain, that's probably the preferred place to configure group policy. If you have one or more Windows 11 computers not connected to a domain, then you should use local group policy to accomplish largely the same thing. Be aware that domain settings can override local settings. Therefore, if you create a policy at the domain level that has a setting and you create a policy at the local level that has the opposite of that setting, then the domain setting will take precedence. Typically, we don't manipulate the same setting at both the domain level and the local level. If you want to make a change to a setting, just do it in one…

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