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Group Policy Extensions in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Part 1
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Ever since the creation of Windows 2000 Server, the primary mechanism for managing security on a Windows network has been group policies. For several years though, I have felt that group policies needed to be extended because there are many aspects of the Windows operating system that simply cannot be controlled by group policies. Fortunately, the developers at Microsoft have acknowledged these group policy related shortcomings, and have completely overhauled group policies in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. In this article series, I will discuss some of the new group policy capabilities.
If you have ever worked with group policies in the past, you know that there are a lot of group policy settings built into Windows. It is difficult to give you an exact count of how many group policy settings actually exist because new group policy settings are often introduced with service packs and even with some application related downloads. I can tell you though that Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 offers approximately 1700 group policy settings. Group Policy Extensions in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Part 1
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