So let's see what it takes to do some creation deletion and editing of GPOs.
So I'm going to just go ahead and right click the group policy objects container and say new and I'm
going to give it a name.
I'll call it my locked down GPO.
And one thing to note is that even though, as I mentioned earlier, the name is not consequential in
terms of what matters in a GPO.
It's really there.
You still can't through PMC create two GPOs with the same friendly name.
You'll get an error when you try to do that.
In fact, if I go ahead and try to create a policy called lock down policy now you'll see that it tells
me that the name already exists and I need to choose a different one.
So that's just something to keep aware of.
Now I can go ahead and delete this GPO as simply as clicking delete.
And it tells me that all the links that exists for this GPO.
So if this GPO has been linked to container objects in this domain, they'll be deleted.
Those links will be deleted if those links exist in another domain.
And remember I said you can link cross domain if you choose to do so.
Well, those links will not be deleted, so they'll essentially be orphaned if you delete the GPO and
you'll have to go back and clean those links up in the other domain.
So I'm just going to go ahead and delete that GPO I just created.
Now remember I said I can just simply right click on a GPO and choose edit.
And if I go ahead and edit a GPO, it brings up the editor.
And I can go in and edit it.
As I've showed you in the past, you can drill into any of these containers and do some work on them.
Now let's look at the comment capability.
If I right click on the name of the GPO up on the top here and choose properties and then comment.
So I can now put in a comment and I'm going to say this is my test comment on the Dallas sales printer's
GPO, Daryn, and that comment is now baked into that GPO.
If I go back to the PMC and look at details tab, you'll see my comment shows up right here.
So it's pretty straightforward to add a comment to a GPO and obviously very straightforward to simply
added a GPO, assuming that I have permissions to do so.
Okay.
Let's go ahead and wrap up this module and we'll talk in the next module about how group policy gets
applied at target systems.