Question Why do some group policy settings require two signings before taking effect?
Answer.
Users typically sign in with cached credentials, which can prevent group policy from applying to the
current session.
The settings will take effect at the next sign in question.
What is the benefit of having a central store?
Answer.
A central store is a single folder and system.
All that holds all the dot atoms and dot animal files that are required after you have set up the central
store.
The group policy management editor recognises it and then loads all administrative templates from the
central store instead of from the local machine.
Question What is the main difference between group policy settings and group policy preferences?
Answer.
Group policy settings, enforce some settings on the client side and they disable client interfaces
for modification.
However, group policy preferences provide settings and they allow clients to modify them.
Best practices.
Best practices related to group policy management when configuring settings and GPOs include comments
on GPO settings.
Use a central store for administrative templates, use group policy preferences to configure settings
that are not available in group policy settings.
Common issues and Troubleshooting Tips.
Common Issue Troubleshooting Tip.
You have configured folder redirection for an IOU, but none of the users folders are redirecting to
the network location.
When you look in the root folder, you observed that a subdirectory named for each user has been created,
but they are empty.
The problem is most likely permissions related group policy creates users named subdirectories, but
users do not have enough permissions to create the redirected folders inside them.
You have a mixture of Windows seven and Windows ten computers after configuring several settings in
the administrative templates of a GPO.
Users with Windows seven operating systems report that some settings apply and others do not.
Not all new settings apply to older operating systems such as Windows seven.
Check the setting itself to see to which operating systems the setting applies.
Group policy preferences do not apply.
Check the preference settings for item level targeting or incorrect configuration.