Contents at a Glance
Part I Getting Started with Group Policy
1 Overview of Group Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2 Working with Group Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3 Advanced Group Policy Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Part II Group Policy Implementation and Scenarios
4 Deploying Group Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
5 Hardening Clients and Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
6 Managing and Maintaining Essential Windows Components . . . . . . . . . .217
7 Managing User Settings and Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
8 Maintaining Internet Explorer Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
9 Deploying and Maintaining Software Through Group Policy . . . . . . . 317
10 Managing Microsoft Office Configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
11 Maintaining Secure Network Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
12 Creating Custom Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
Part III Group Policy Customization
13 Group Policy Structure and Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473
14 Customizing Administrative Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
15 Security Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553
Part IV Group Policy Troubleshooting
16 Troubleshooting Group Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
17 Resolving Common Group Policy Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
Part V Appendixes
A Group Policy Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
B New Features in Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 669
C GPMC Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687
D Office 2003 Administrative Template Highlights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 705
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