Group Policy Reference
Related Resources
You can find additional information about specific Group Policies and Group Policy in general from a variety of sources. The following are just a few of the sources available from Microsoft.
Group Policy Explain Tab
Each policy in the Administrative Templates folders in Group Policy features an Explain tab that fully describes that policy. To see the description of any policy, open a policy in Group Policy, double-click the policy name, and then click the Explain tab.
Windows 2000 Help
The Group Policy topic in Windows 2000 Help describes the Group Policy component.
Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit
The Windows® 2000 Server Resource Kit Distributed Systems Guide contains information about Group Policy.
The Technical Reference to the Windows 2000 Registry
(Regentry.chm) describes the registry entries that store Group Policy settings and the registry entries that are overridden when you configure a Group Policy. In particular, see the subkeys managed by Group Policy:
\Software\Policies
and
\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies.
Technical Documents
Introduction to Windows 2000 Group Policy presents an overview of Windows 2000 Group Policy.
The Group Policy paper is the primary technical whitepaper describing Group Policy.
The Group Policy Walkthrough is a technical review of the features of Group Policy. This paper contains information for technology managers and system administrators and others who are interested in using Group Policy to manage desktop environments.
If you have an Internet connection and a Web browser, you can click the following links to visit these sites.
Windows 2000 Resource Kits Web Site
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Web Site
Windows Hardware Compatibility List
Microsoft Knowledge Base Search
Microsoft Internet Explorer Web Site
MSDN Online: Essential Resources for Developers
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