Group Policy

Group Policy enables you to define a standard collection of settings and apply them to some or all the computers and/or users in your enterprise. Group Policy has the capability to provide centralized control of a variety of components of a Windows network, such as security, application deployment and management, communications, and the overall user experience.

Group Policy is applied by creating an object that contains the settings that control the users’ and computers’ access to network and machine resources. This Group Policy Object (GPO) is created from templates that are stored on the workstation or server.